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    namei: lift link_path_walk() call out of trailing_symlink() · 3bdba28b
    Al Viro authored
    Make trailing_symlink() return the pathname to traverse or ERR_PTR(-E...).
    A subtle point is that for "magic" symlinks it returns "" now - that
    leads to link_path_walk("", nd), which is immediately returning 0 and
    we are back to the treatment of the last component, at whereever the
    damn thing has left us.
    
    Reduces the stack footprint - link_path_walk() called on more shallow
    stack now.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    3bdba28b
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