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Revision 2788cc47f4593cca2c3c73c7bb82cd32b88c8ef7 authored by Al Viro on 06 December 2015, 17:33:02 UTC, committed by Al Viro on 06 December 2015, 17:33:02 UTC
we already zero it on outermost set_nameidata(), so initialization in
path_init() is pointless and wrong.  The same DoS exists on pre-4.2
kernels, but there a slightly different fix will be needed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Tip revision: 2788cc47f4593cca2c3c73c7bb82cd32b88c8ef7 authored by Al Viro on 06 December 2015, 17:33:02 UTC
Don't reset ->total_link_count on nested calls of vfs_path_lookup()
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