Re: [PATCH] autofs4 doesn't expire

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 00:08:48 EST


Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> + if (vfs) {
> + if (is_vfsmnt_tree_busy(vfs))
> + ret--;
> + /* just to reduce ref count taken in lookup_mnt
> + * cannot call mntput() here
> + */
> + atomic_dec(&vfs->mnt_count);
> + }

Doesn't work, does it? If someone else does a mntput() just beforehand,
__mntput() never gets run.

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