From: Ian Kent <ikent@xxxxxxxxxx>
The autofs4 module doesn't consider symlinks for expire as it did
in the older autofs v3 module (so it's actually a long stnding
regression).
The user space daemon has focused on the use of bind mounts instead
of symlinks for a long time now and that's why this has not been
noticed. But with the future addition of amd map parsing to
automount(8), not to mention amd itself (of am-utils), symlink
expiry will be needed.
The direct and offset mount types can't be symlinks and the tree
mounts of version 4 were always real mounts so only indirect
mounts need expire symlinks.
Since the current users of the autofs4 module haven't reproted
this as a problem to date this patch probably isn't a candidate
for backport to stable.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <ikent@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/autofs4/expire.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
fs/autofs4/symlink.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/expire.c b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
index 3d9d3f5..394e90b 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/expire.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
@@ -402,6 +402,20 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_indirect(struct super_block *sb,
goto next;
}
+ if (dentry->d_inode && S_ISLNK(dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
+ DPRINTK("checking symlink %p %.*s",
+ dentry, (int)dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);
+ /*
+ * A symlink can't be "busy" in the usual sense so
+ * just check last used for expire timeout.
+ */
+ if (autofs4_can_expire(dentry, timeout, do_now)) {
+ expired = dentry;
+ goto found;
+ }
+ goto next;
+ }
+
if (simple_empty(dentry))
goto next;
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/symlink.c b/fs/autofs4/symlink.c
index f27c094..1e8ea19 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/symlink.c
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
static void *autofs4_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
{
+ struct autofs_sb_info *sbi = autofs4_sbi(dentry->d_sb);
+ struct autofs_info *ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
+ if (ino && !autofs4_oz_mode(sbi))
+ ino->last_used = jiffies;
nd_set_link(nd, dentry->d_inode->i_private);
return NULL;
}
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