From: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

when cookie is NULL, put_link() is equivalent to path_put(), so
as soon as we'd set last->cookie to NULL, we can bump nd->depth and
let the normal logics in terminate_walk() to take care of cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/namei.c | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index f311f03..678aeef 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -904,27 +904,23 @@ const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd)
 
        last->link = nd->link;
        last->cookie = NULL;
+       nd->depth++;
 
        cond_resched();
 
        touch_atime(&last->link);
 
        error = security_inode_follow_link(dentry);
-       res = ERR_PTR(error);
        if (error)
-               goto out;
+               return ERR_PTR(error);
 
        nd->last_type = LAST_BIND;
        res = inode->i_link;
        if (!res) {
                res = inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, &last->cookie);
-               if (IS_ERR(res)) {
-out:
-                       path_put(&last->link);
-                       return res;
-               }
+               if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(res))
+                       last->cookie = NULL;
        }
-       nd->depth++;
        return res;
 }
 
-- 
2.1.4

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