vfs: don't BUG_ON() if following a /proc fd pseudo-symlink results in a symlink

It's "normal" - it can happen if the file descriptor you followed was
opened with O_NOFOLLOW.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 961bc1268366d80c8b44adf5adc0aec26f59edbd..57ae9c8c66bfc6d98ae96643874710cdc3de321a 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -689,8 +689,6 @@ void nd_jump_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path)
        nd->path = *path;
        nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;
        nd->flags |= LOOKUP_JUMPED;
-
-       BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link);
 }
 
 static inline void put_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *link, void *cookie)