[PATCH] autofs4 - fix direct mount pending expire race - correction

From: Ian Kent
Date: Thu Jul 17 2008 - 23:19:06 EST


Appologies, somehow I seem to have sent an out dated version of this
patch. Here is an additional patch that brings the patch up to date.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

fs/autofs4/root.c | 10 ++--------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)


diff --git a/fs/autofs4/root.c b/fs/autofs4/root.c
index b1536c1..7a7ed94 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/root.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/root.c
@@ -190,13 +190,7 @@ static void *autofs4_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
/* Follow down to our covering mount. */
if (!follow_down(&nd->path.mnt, &nd->path.dentry))
goto done;
- /*
- * We shouldn't need to do this but we have no way
- * of knowing what may have been done so try a follow
- * just in case.
- */
- autofs4_follow_mount(&nd->path.mnt, &nd->path.dentry);
- goto done;
+ goto follow;
}
spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
goto done;
@@ -208,7 +202,7 @@ static void *autofs4_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
/* We trigger a mount for almost all flags */
lookup_type = nd->flags & (TRIGGER_FLAGS | TRIGGER_INTENTS);
if (!(lookup_type || dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_AUTOFS_PENDING))
- goto done;
+ goto follow;

/*
* If the dentry contains directories then it is an autofs
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