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H A Dnamei.cfe2d35ff Sat Mar 05 21:58:25 CST 2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> switch non-create side of open() to use of do_last()

Instead of path_lookupat() doing trailing symlink resolution,
use the same scheme as on the O_CREAT side. Walk with
LOOKUP_PARENT, then (in do_last()) look the final component
up, then either open it or return error or, if it's a symlink,
give the symlink back to path_openat() to be resolved there.

The really messy complication here is RCU. We don't want to drop
out of RCU mode before the final lookup, since we don't want to
bounce parent directory ->d_count without a good reason.

Result is _not_ pretty; later in the series we'll clean it up.
For now we are roughly back where we'd been before the revert
done by Nick's series - top-level logics of path_openat() is
cleaned up, do_last() does actual opening, symlink resolution is
done uniformly.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fe2d35ff Sat Mar 05 21:58:25 CST 2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> switch non-create side of open() to use of do_last()

Instead of path_lookupat() doing trailing symlink resolution,
use the same scheme as on the O_CREAT side. Walk with
LOOKUP_PARENT, then (in do_last()) look the final component
up, then either open it or return error or, if it's a symlink,
give the symlink back to path_openat() to be resolved there.

The really messy complication here is RCU. We don't want to drop
out of RCU mode before the final lookup, since we don't want to
bounce parent directory ->d_count without a good reason.

Result is _not_ pretty; later in the series we'll clean it up.
For now we are roughly back where we'd been before the revert
done by Nick's series - top-level logics of path_openat() is
cleaned up, do_last() does actual opening, symlink resolution is
done uniformly.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>