[PATCH 73/79] lustre: rip the private symlink nesting limit out

[Al Viro]

From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c | 15 +++------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c
index e488cb3..da6d9d1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/symlink.c
@@ -126,18 +126,9 @@ static const char *ll_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, void **cookie, struct n
 	char *symname = NULL;
 
 	CDEBUG(D_VFSTRACE, "VFS Op\n");
-	/* Limit the recursive symlink depth to 5 instead of default
-	 * 8 links when kernel has 4k stack to prevent stack overflow.
-	 * For 8k stacks we need to limit it to 7 for local servers. */
-	if (THREAD_SIZE < 8192 && current->link_count >= 6) {
-		rc = -ELOOP;
-	} else if (THREAD_SIZE == 8192 && current->link_count >= 8) {
-		rc = -ELOOP;
-	} else {
-		ll_inode_size_lock(inode);
-		rc = ll_readlink_internal(inode, &request, &symname);
-		ll_inode_size_unlock(inode);
-	}
+	ll_inode_size_lock(inode);
+	rc = ll_readlink_internal(inode, &request, &symname);
+	ll_inode_size_unlock(inode);
 	if (rc) {
 		ptlrpc_req_finished(request);
 		return ERR_PTR(rc);
-- 
2.1.4

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