Now that follow_link handles LOOKUP_RCU, we do not need to
'unlazy_walk' when a symlink is found.

As we remain in RCU-walk mode, dentry->d_inode can change
so the BUG_ON() assertions are no longer appropriate.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
---
 fs/namei.c |   21 +++------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 40ff4cb04244..0f5b627bd78e 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1636,16 +1636,9 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, 
struct path *path,
        if (!inode || d_is_negative(path->dentry))
                goto out_path_put;
 
-       if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow)) {
-               if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
-                       if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
-                               err = -ECHILD;
-                               goto out_err;
-                       }
-               }
-               BUG_ON(inode != path->dentry->d_inode);
+       if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow))
                return 1;
-       }
+
        path_to_nameidata(path, nd);
        nd->inode = inode;
        return 0;
@@ -3102,16 +3095,8 @@ finish_lookup:
                goto out;
        }
 
-       if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, !symlink_ok)) {
-               if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
-                       if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
-                               error = -ECHILD;
-                               goto out;
-                       }
-               }
-               BUG_ON(inode != path->dentry->d_inode);
+       if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, !symlink_ok))
                return 1;
-       }
 
        if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) || nd->path.mnt != path->mnt) {
                path_to_nameidata(path, nd);


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