In NFSv4, there is no hard limit on the length of symlink text. This patch changes the -ENAMETOOLONG test in nfs_symlink() accordingly. --- old/fs/nfs/dir.c Sun Aug 11 20:26:56 2002 +++ new/fs/nfs/dir.c Sun Aug 11 20:28:25 2002 @@ -1022,15 +1022,15 @@ nfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct de struct nfs_fattr sym_attr; struct nfs_fh sym_fh; struct qstr qsymname; - unsigned int maxlen; int error; dfprintk(VFS, "NFS: symlink(%s/%ld, %s, %s)\n", dir->i_sb->s_id, dir->i_ino, dentry->d_name.name, symname); error = -ENAMETOOLONG; - maxlen = (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version==2) ? NFS2_MAXPATHLEN : NFS3_MAXPATHLEN; - if (strlen(symname) > maxlen) + if (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version == 2 && strlen(symname) > NFS2_MAXPATHLEN) + goto out; + else if (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version == 3 && strlen(symname) > NFS3_MAXPATHLEN) goto out; #ifdef NFS_PARANOIA