[PATCH 2/2] fs: remove shortcut in canonicalizing filenames

[Ulrich Ölmann]

Only individually getting the file status for every part of the path tells us if
a symbolic link is involved or not. If this is the case the later call to
readlink will check if the filesystem supports symbolic links or not.

Hence this reverts commit d79a81736f64 ("fs: Don't bother filesystems without
link support with additional stat() calls").

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Ölmann <u.oelmann at pengutronix.de>
---
 fs/fs.c | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fs.c b/fs/fs.c
index 7c818eca024f..b2da0a62a29d 100644
--- a/fs/fs.c
+++ b/fs/fs.c
@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ char *normalise_path(const char *pathname)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(normalise_path);
 
 static int __lstat(const char *filename, struct stat *s);
-static struct fs_device_d *get_fsdevice_by_path(const char *path);
 
 static char *__canonicalize_path(const char *_pathname, int level)
 {
@@ -167,7 +166,6 @@ static char *__canonicalize_path(const char *_pathname, int level)
 		char *p = strsep(&path, "/");
 		char *tmp;
 		char link[PATH_MAX] = {};
-		struct fs_device_d *fsdev;
 
 		if (!p)
 			break;
@@ -186,14 +184,6 @@ static char *__canonicalize_path(const char *_pathname, int level)
 		free(outpath);
 		outpath = tmp;
 
-		/*
-		 * Don't bother filesystems without link support
-		 * with an additional stat() call.
-		 */
-		fsdev = get_fsdevice_by_path(outpath);
-		if (!fsdev || !fsdev->driver->readlink)
-			continue;
-
 		ret = __lstat(outpath, &s);
 		if (ret)
 			goto out;
-- 
2.16.3