1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d62fdc875f22..a4855af776a8 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -823,6 +823,17 @@ fail:
 }
 
 /*
+ * This is a temporary kludge to deal with "automount" symlinks; proper
+ * solution is to trigger them on follow_mount(), so that do_lookup()
+ * would DTRT.  To be killed before 2.6.34-final.
+ */
+static inline int follow_on_final(struct inode *inode, unsigned lookup_flags)
+{
+        return inode && unlikely(inode->i_op->follow_link) &&
+                ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode));
+}
+
+/*
  * Name resolution.
  * This is the basic name resolution function, turning a pathname into
  * the final dentry. We expect 'base' to be positive and a directory.
@@ -942,8 +953,7 @@ last_component:
                 if (err)
                         break;
                 inode = next.dentry->d_inode;
-                if ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)
-                    && inode && inode->i_op->follow_link) {
+                if (follow_on_final(inode, lookup_flags)) {
                         err = do_follow_link(&next, nd);
                         if (err)
                                 goto return_err;