On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 07:51:48AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Commit 397d425dc26d ("vfs: Test for and handle paths that are
> > unreachable from their mnt_root") is missing.
> 
> OK I'm seeing it in your 3.2 branch, I'll try to backport it.

The code in 2.6.32 looks like a plate of spaghetti, which was heavily
reworked in 2.6.38-rc1 by commit 31e6b01 ("fs: rcu-walk for path lookup").
It even does something suspiciously useless :

		if (this.name[0] == '.') switch (this.len) {
			default:
				break;
			case 2:	
				if (this.name[1] != '.')
					break;
				follow_dotdot(nd);
				inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;
				/* fallthrough */
			case 1:
				goto return_reval;
		}

Look how inode is assigned after follow_dotdot() and is never used
between the moment it's assigned and the moment it's re-assigned. I
think I got it right though. I checked that I don't need to pass
via path_put() on exit since follow_dotdot() does it on the error
path. I'd appreciate that you, Eric, or anyone else would review it
though.

Thanks,
Willy