NFS: LOOKUP_DIRECTORY is also ok with symlinks
authorTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Tue, 8 Feb 2022 18:38:23 +0000 (13:38 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:56:40 +0000 (11:56 +0100)
commita7fd396a1630ff94709f23f1dc1f8b8e23c68955
tree4461b442de804d90e135ef76a01ccb726d660d5c
parent4884995b9225e2d10626a7bc6747381357a4805e
NFS: LOOKUP_DIRECTORY is also ok with symlinks

commit e0caaf75d443e02e55e146fd75fe2efc8aed5540 upstream.

Commit ac795161c936 (NFSv4: Handle case where the lookup of a directory
fails) [1], part of Linux since 5.17-rc2, introduced a regression, where
a symbolic link on an NFS mount to a directory on another NFS does not
resolve(?) the first time it is accessed:

Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Fixes: ac795161c936 ("NFSv4: Handle case where the lookup of a directory fails")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Tested-by: Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/nfs/dir.c