From: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com
commit e0caaf75d443e02e55e146fd75fe2efc8aed5540 upstream.
Commit ac795161c936 (NFSv4: Handle case where the lookup of a directory fails) [1], part of Linux since 5.17-rc2, introduced a regression, where a symbolic link on an NFS mount to a directory on another NFS does not resolve(?) the first time it is accessed:
Reported-by: Paul Menzel pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de Fixes: ac795161c936 ("NFSv4: Handle case where the lookup of a directory fails") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com Tested-by: Donald Buczek buczek@molgen.mpg.de Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -1605,14 +1605,14 @@ no_open: if (!res) { inode = d_inode(dentry); if ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && inode && - !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) + !(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) res = ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR); else if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) res = ERR_PTR(-EOPENSTALE); } else if (!IS_ERR(res)) { inode = d_inode(res); if ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && inode && - !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) { + !(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) { dput(res); res = ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR); } else if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {