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New lookup flag: LOOKUP_ROOT.  nd->root is set (and held) by caller,
path_init() starts walking from that place and all pathname resolution
machinery never drops nd->root if that flag is set.  That turns
vfs_path_lookup() into a special case of do_path_lookup() *and*
gets us down to 3 callers of link_path_walk(), making it finally
feasible to rip the handling of trailing symlink out of link_path_walk().
That will not only simply the living hell out of it, but make life
much simpler for unionfs merge.  Trailing symlink handling will
become iterative, which is a good thing for stack footprint in
a lot of situations as well.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>