TAKE 980080 - Don't validate symlink target component length

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Subject:	TAKE 980080 - Don't validate symlink target component length
From:	dgc@xxxxxxx (David Chinner)
Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:44:29 +1000 (EST)
Cc:	xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sender:	xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx

Don't validate symlink target component length

This target component validation is not POSIX conformant and it is not
done by any other Linux filesystem so remove it from XFS.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Date:  Wed Apr  9 14:44:06 AEST 2008
Workarea:  chook.melbourne.sgi.com:/build/dgc/isms/2.6.x-xfs
Inspected by:  hch@xxxxxx

The following file(s) were checked into:
  longdrop.melbourne.sgi.com:/isms/linux/2.6.x-xfs-melb


Modid:  xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30776a
fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c - 1.745 - changed
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xfs-linux/xfs_vnodeops.c.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.745&r2=text&tr2=1.744&f=h
        - Remove non-POSIX symlink target component validation.

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