From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:24:29 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] symlink nesting level change
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc2~31
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=737bebd137561e184f0a8b4332d9bb0238d8b639;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] symlink nesting level change

It's way past time to bump it to 8.  Everyone had been warned - for
months now.

RH kernels have had this for more than a year.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 58cb3d3d44..45511a5918 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ struct open_intent {
 	struct file *file;
 };
 
-enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 5 };
+enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 8 };
 
 struct nameidata {
 	struct dentry	*dentry;