Merge branch 'kprobes-test' of git://git.yxit.co.uk/linux into devel-stable

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 2826db35dc25..b52bc685465f 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -727,25 +727,22 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
         if ((flags & LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) && !(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT))
                 return -EISDIR; /* we actually want to stop here */
 
-        /*
-         * We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat and they've
-         * set AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW - unless they're stat'ing a directory and
-         * appended a '/' to the name.
+        /* We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat -
+         * unless they're stat'ing a directory and appended a '/' to
+         * the name.
+         *
+         * We do, however, want to mount if someone wants to open or
+         * create a file of any type under the mountpoint, wants to
+         * traverse through the mountpoint or wants to open the
+         * mounted directory.  Also, autofs may mark negative dentries
+         * as being automount points.  These will need the attentions
+         * of the daemon to instantiate them before they can be used.
          */
-        if (!(flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) {
-                /* We do, however, want to mount if someone wants to open or
-                 * create a file of any type under the mountpoint, wants to
-                 * traverse through the mountpoint or wants to open the mounted
-                 * directory.
-                 * Also, autofs may mark negative dentries as being automount
-                 * points.  These will need the attentions of the daemon to
-                 * instantiate them before they can be used.
-                 */
-                if (!(flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY |
-                             LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE)) &&
-                    path->dentry->d_inode)
-                        return -EISDIR;
-        }
+        if (!(flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY |
+                     LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE)) &&
+            path->dentry->d_inode)
+                return -EISDIR;
+
         current->total_link_count++;
         if (current->total_link_count >= 40)
                 return -ELOOP;