Re: [PATCH] vfs: Fix O_NOFOLLOW behavior for paths with trailingslashes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 13 May 2010, Jan Kara wrote:
>
> According to specification
> mkdir d; ln -s d a; open("a/", O_NOFOLLOW | O_RDONLY)
> should return success but currently it did return ELOOP. Fix the code to ignore
> O_NOFOLLOW in case the provided path has trailing slashes. This is a regression
> caused by path lookup cleanup patch series.
> 
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Hmm? Is this correct? Isn't the bug introduced in this merge window, and 
thus not relevant for stable?

		Linus
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