Il 07/09/2013 16:41, Al Viro ha scritto:
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:29:15AM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
+static int pram_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int 
buflen)
+{
+       struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+       struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+       u64 block;
+       char *blockp;
+
+       block = pram_find_data_block(inode, 0);
+       blockp = pram_get_block(sb, block);
+       return vfs_readlink(dentry, buffer, buflen, blockp);
+}

+static void *pram_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+       struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+       struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+       off_t block;
+       int status;
+       char *blockp;
+
+       block = pram_find_data_block(inode, 0);
+       blockp = pram_get_block(sb, block);
+       status = vfs_follow_link(nd, blockp);
+       return ERR_PTR(status);
+}

Just nd_set_link(nd, blockp) instead of that vfs_follow_link() and be
done with that; that way you can use generic_readlink() instead of
pram_readlink() *and* get lower stack footprint on traversing them.



Yep, you're right (as usual :))

Marco

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