replacing usage of vfs_readlink with new readlink_copy API see: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/445090 diff -rupN vmblock-only/linux/inode.c vmblock-only/linux/inode.c --- vmblock-only/linux/inode.c 2014-10-05 23:20:14.545218357 -0400 +++ vmblock-only/linux/inode.c 2014-10-05 23:33:01.549259933 -0400 @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ InodeOpReadlink(struct dentry *dentry, return -EINVAL; } - return vfs_readlink(dentry, buffer, buflen, iinfo->name); + return readlink_copy(buffer, buflen, iinfo->name); }