Re: [PATCH 2/2] autofs: dont trigger mount if it cant succeed

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Nov 11 2025 - 05:28:35 EST


On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 06:13:19PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> Anyway, for the moment, I think your saying just taking an ns_common
> reference
>
> will be problematic as well.

If it is persistent - definitely. We'd get a massive leak, since
namespace is torn apart when the refcount drops to zero.