Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267241AbTGGTbl (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:31:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267244AbTGGTbl (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:31:41 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:58054 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267241AbTGGTbk (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:31:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:46:18 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no Cc: vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: opening symlinks with O_CREAT under latest 2.5.74 Message-Id: <20030707124618.603f7e5f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16137.51802.41123.551648@charged.uio.no> References: <20030707154628.GA3220@vana.vc.cvut.cz> <16137.51802.41123.551648@charged.uio.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 409 Lines: 11 Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Whoops. Looks like I missed an assumption in open_namei(). > Does the following patch fix the problem? Yes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/