1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 94a5e60779f9..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;
@@ -1736,8 +1746,7 @@ do_last:
                 if (nd.root.mnt)
                         path_put(&nd.root);
                 if (!IS_ERR(filp)) {
-                        error = ima_path_check(&filp->f_path, filp->f_mode &
-                                       (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC));
+                        error = ima_file_check(filp, acc_mode);
                         if (error) {
                                 fput(filp);
                                 filp = ERR_PTR(error);
@@ -1797,8 +1806,7 @@ ok:
         }
         filp = nameidata_to_filp(&nd);
         if (!IS_ERR(filp)) {
-                error = ima_path_check(&filp->f_path, filp->f_mode &
-                               (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC));
+                error = ima_file_check(filp, acc_mode);
                 if (error) {
                         fput(filp);
                         filp = ERR_PTR(error);