Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757227Ab2FDPOP (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:14:15 -0400 Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:48429 "EHLO mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752618Ab2FDPON (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:14:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:14:07 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Linus Torvalds Cc: LKML , LINUXFS-ML , Al Viro , Eric Biederman Subject: Probleam reading fdinfo symlinks after 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831 Message-ID: <20120604151407.GD23701@moon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 22 Hi Linus, just tried 3.5-rc1 out and found that with commit 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831 the reading of fdinfo files returns "Too many levels of symbolic links" error. | [root@neptune~]# cat /proc/`pidof crond`/fdinfo/0 | cat: /proc/1417/fdinfo/0: Too many levels of symbolic links so I reverted it manually and now it works as expected | [root@neptune ~]# cat /proc/`pidof crond`/fdinfo/0 | pos: 0 | flags: 0100002 I suspect this is unintentional behaviour of the commit. -- 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/