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    Fix nasty ncpfs symlink handling bug. · cc314eef
    Linus Torvalds authored
    This bug could cause oopses and page state corruption, because ncpfs
    used the generic page-cache symlink handlign functions.  But those
    functions only work if the page cache is guaranteed to be "stable", ie a
    page that was installed when the symlink walk was started has to still
    be installed in the page cache at the end of the walk.
    
    We could have fixed ncpfs to not use the generic helper routines, but it
    is in many ways much cleaner to instead improve on the symlink walking
    helper routines so that they don't require that absolute stability.
    
    We do this by allowing "follow_link()" to return a error-pointer as a
    cookie, which is fed back to the cleanup "put_link()" routine.  This
    also simplifies NFS symlink handling.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
    cc314eef
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