From: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>

Since path_walk sets the total_link_count to 0 and calls link_path_walk, we
can just call path_walk directly.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/namei.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/namei.c~fs-use-path_walk-in-do_path_lookup fs/namei.c
--- a/fs/namei.c~fs-use-path_walk-in-do_path_lookup
+++ a/fs/namei.c
@@ -1152,8 +1152,8 @@ static int fastcall do_path_lookup(int d
 
 		fput_light(file, fput_needed);
 	}
-	current->total_link_count = 0;
-	retval = link_path_walk(name, nd);
+
+	retval = path_walk(name, nd);
 out:
 	if (unlikely(!retval && !audit_dummy_context() && nd->dentry &&
 				nd->dentry->d_inode))
_