On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 16:35 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 20:03 -0400, jeffm@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> > > > > Hi Ian - > > > > We recently encountered an issue where a client would all of a sudden > > start returning ELOOP for anything involving crossing an autofs mount. > > We tracked it down to two bugs, one which obscured the other. The > > first > > is that we were not properly updating the map age for yp maps when we > > retry > > the lookup with dots instead of underscores. The second is that it is > > possible under several situations to return success when there was a > > failure in lookup_nss_mount. In this particular case, it was the only > > map in the list and since the age wasn't update, it was skipped. Then > > we exit the while loop with ret == 0, ultimately returning success to > > the caller. Autofs would tell the kernel it succeeded, the kernel > > would > > retry the lookup, and we'd loop until we hit the kernel loop limit > > (40). > > > > These two patches fix each of the issues. > > OK, that sounds good. > > I'll have a look at the code to make sure I understand what's going on > before adding these to the list of patches I have. > > That list is getting a bit large now so I'll likely be committing them > soonish but I can't say yet when I'll release 5.1.2. > > Up until now I thought that the source of the ELOOP returns that some > people have seen were due to incorrect returns of in kernel mounted > checks where mounts were present in other namespaces. > > My most recent attempt at resolving that had a positive response from a > tester here on the list but another tester experienced file system > corruption. I'm totally at mystified by this so I'm a bit stuck at the > moment. When importing these I've made a couple of changes I hope you will be ok with. The content of the patches remains the same (assuming I have no other questions when I properly review them). Due to my convention of trying to always have the patch title the same as the patch name I had to change the first patch. I changed the patch name (and title with "-" changed to " ") to: autofs-5.1.1-fix-yp-map-age-not-updated-during-map-lookup.patch The description remains the same and I think still conveys the intent of the change. I changed only autofs: to autofs-5.1.1 in the second patch. Finally I assume your ok with me adding your "Signed-off-by:" to both patches, along with mine. > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Jeff > > > > Jeff Mahoney (2): > > autofs: fix yp map age not updated in s/_/./g case > > autofs: properly handle errors in lookup_nss_mount > > > > daemon/lookup.c | 5 ++++- > > modules/lookup_yp.c | 17 ++++++++--------- > > 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in