> As far as I can see, the cycle essentially is
> link_path_walk -> do_follow_link -> page_follow_link -> vfs_follow_link ->.
[snip the obvious strategy that doesn't work]
> Now symlink resolution can be entirely iterative.
Wrong. That breaks for anything with ->follow_link() that can't be expressed
as a single lookup on some path.
For fsck sake, give the folks here some credit - strategy above is _not_
hard to think up and it had been discussed on l-k several times.
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