From 31fe39a30da74668fa4bb117f5b837610ef4722d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:27:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 185921 b: refs/heads/master c:
 c99658fe970f442199733bcace1a00b087336a0d h: refs/heads/master i:   185919:
 4d33d18d42334ab768b0fb73d81f708e6582cace v: v3

---
 [refs]           | 2 +-
 trunk/fs/namei.c | 7 +------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 1ad7fe787512..1201df8b897f 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a1e28038df98e186807ff55a49c1c26d33d530a5
+refs/heads/master: c99658fe970f442199733bcace1a00b087336a0d
diff --git a/trunk/fs/namei.c b/trunk/fs/namei.c
index 976fc323272e..84f1ec3b4a5d 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/namei.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/namei.c
@@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ struct file *do_filp_open(int dfd, const char *pathname,
 
 do_link:
 	error = -ELOOP;
-	if (flag & O_NOFOLLOW)
+	if ((flag & O_NOFOLLOW) || count++ == 32)
 		goto exit_dput;
 	/*
 	 * This is subtle. Instead of calling do_follow_link() we do the
@@ -1915,11 +1915,6 @@ struct file *do_filp_open(int dfd, const char *pathname,
 		__putname(nd.last.name);
 		goto exit;
 	}
-	error = -ELOOP;
-	if (count++==32) {
-		__putname(nd.last.name);
-		goto exit;
-	}
 	filp = do_last(&nd, &path, open_flag, flag, acc_mode, mode,
 		       pathname, &is_link);
 	__putname(nd.last.name);