Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755603Ab2FDSMB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:12:01 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:38870 "EHLO mail-lb0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755455Ab2FDSL5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:11:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:11:44 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Linus Torvalds Cc: LKML , LINUXFS-ML , Al Viro , Eric Biederman Subject: Re: Probleam reading fdinfo symlinks after 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831 Message-ID: <20120604181144.GK23701@moon> References: <20120604151407.GD23701@moon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 847 Lines: 21 On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:59:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > > > 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. > > Ugh. The fdinfo files aren't symlinks at all, and share the revalidate function. > > My bad. The fix isn't pretty, but still better than reverting things. > This should fix it. Thanks Linus! This patch fixed it. Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov -- 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/