generic_readlink() - patch WFM

[David Eger]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:24:17PM +0100, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I got this oops on boot with the latest Bitkeeper snapshot of 2.6.7
> 
> Memory corruption in generic_readlink(), now that we use nd->depth instead
> of current->link_count.  Fix follows:

what a nasty bug. your patch works for me.
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