From 11cd2136a915e9eb3588588de0c163a595f2d41e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: adilger <adilger>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:16:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Branch b1_4 Description: liblustre could not open files whose
 last component is a symlink Details    : sysio_path_walk() would incorrectly
 pass the open intent to 	     intermediate path components. b=6363
 r=oleg, lee, devesh

---
 libsysio/src/namei.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libsysio/src/namei.c b/libsysio/src/namei.c
index c4b6072..9dc7a15 100644
--- a/libsysio/src/namei.c
+++ b/libsysio/src/namei.c
@@ -257,12 +257,14 @@ _sysio_path_walk(struct pnode *parent, struct nameidata *nd)
 			lpath[cc] = '\0';			/* NUL term */
 			/*
 			 * Handle symbolic links with recursion. Yuck!
+			 * Pass the NULL intent for recursive symlink
+			 * except the last component.
 			 */
 			ND_INIT(&nameidata,
 				(nd->nd_flags | ND_NEGOK),
 				lpath,
 				nd->nd_root,
-				nd->nd_intent);
+				!next.len ? nd->nd_intent : NULL);
 			nameidata.nd_slicnt = nd->nd_slicnt + 1;
 			err =
 			    _sysio_path_walk(nd->nd_pno->p_parent, &nameidata);
-- 
1.8.3.1