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    afs: Distinguish mountpoints from symlinks by file mode alone · 944c74f4
    David Howells authored
    In AFS, mountpoints appear as symlinks with mode 0644 and normal symlinks
    have mode 0777, so use this to distinguish them rather than reading the
    content and parsing it.  In the case of a mountpoint, the symlink body is a
    formatted string indicating the location of the target volume.
    
    Note that with this, kAFS no longer 'pre-fetches' the contents of symlinks,
    so afs_readpage() may fail with an access-denial because when the VFS calls
    d_automount(), it wraps the call in an credentials override that sets the
    initial creds - thereby preventing access to the caller's keyrings and the
    authentication keys held therein.
    
    To this end, a patch reverting that change to the VFS is required also.
    Reported-by: default avatarJeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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