On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 02:14:45PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > If an automount mount is clone(2)ed into a file system that is > propagation private, when it later expires in the originating > namespace subsequent calls to autofs ->d_automount() for that > dentry in the original namespace will return ELOOP until the > mount is manually umounted in the cloned namespace. > > In the same way, if an autofs mount is triggered by automount(8) > running within a container the dentry will be seen as mounted in > the root init namespace and calls to ->d_automount() in that namespace > will return ELOOP until the mount is umounted within the container. > > Also, have_submounts() can return an incorect result when a mount > exists in a namespace other than the one being checked. > > @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ static int autofs4_d_manage(struct dentry *dentry, bool rcu_walk) > > if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE) > return 0; > - if (d_mountpoint(dentry)) > + if (is_local_mountpoint(dentry)) > return 0; > inode = d_inode_rcu(dentry); > if (inode && S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) This change is within RCU lookup. is_local_mountpoint may end up calling __is_local_mountpoint, which will optionally take the namespace_sem lock, resulting in a splat: #0: (&(&sbi->fs_lock)->rlock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff816a4572>] autofs4_d_manage+0x202/0x290^M Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff816a4572>] autofs4_d_manage+0x202/0x290^M ^M CPU: 1 PID: 1307 Comm: iknowthis Not tainted 4.8.0-rc6-next-20160916dupa #448^M Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011^M ffff8800077378f8 ffffffff818eaffc 0000000000000001 0000000000000000^M ffff880007737930 ffffffff8110c870 ffff880007588048 ffffffff82483840^M 0000000000000015 0000000000000000 ffff880007588040 ffff880007737978^M Call Trace:^M [<ffffffff818eaffc>] dump_stack+0x85/0xc9^M [<ffffffff8110c870>] ___might_sleep+0x1e0/0x2e0^M [<ffffffff8110c9e1>] __might_sleep+0x71/0xe0^M [<ffffffff8110d039>] ? preempt_count_sub+0x39/0x80^M [<ffffffff8220352a>] down_read+0x2a/0xc0^M [<ffffffff813f7ec6>] __is_local_mountpoint+0x66/0xe0^M [<ffffffff816a45d3>] autofs4_d_manage+0x263/0x290^M [<ffffffff813d1a47>] follow_managed+0x157/0x480^M [<ffffffff813d6b5b>] lookup_fast+0x3ab/0x690^M [<ffffffff813d67b0>] ? trailing_symlink+0x370/0x370^M [<ffffffff813d7757>] ? path_init+0x917/0xa10^M [<ffffffff811525e7>] ? __mutex_init+0x77/0x80^M [<ffffffff813d910c>] path_openat+0x2bc/0x13e0^M [<ffffffff813d8e50>] ? path_lookupat+0x1f0/0x1f0^M [<ffffffff8137e48f>] ? __asan_loadN+0xf/0x20^M [<ffffffff81088776>] ? pvclock_clocksource_read+0xd6/0x180^M [<ffffffff810870d3>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x23/0x40^M [<ffffffff813dc3a2>] do_filp_open+0x122/0x1c0^M [<ffffffff8110d039>] ? preempt_count_sub+0x39/0x80^M [<ffffffff813dc280>] ? may_open_dev+0x50/0x50^M [<ffffffff8110cf88>] ? preempt_count_sub.part.67+0x18/0x90^M [<ffffffff8110d039>] ? preempt_count_sub+0x39/0x80^M [<ffffffff82207c31>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x31/0x50^M [<ffffffff813f6061>] ? __alloc_fd+0x141/0x2b0^M [<ffffffff813bd02c>] do_sys_open+0x17c/0x2c0^M [<ffffffff813bceb0>] ? filp_open+0x60/0x60^M [<ffffffff8100201a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c^M [<ffffffff813bd18e>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20^M [<ffffffff82208701>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2^M [<ffffffff811549e5>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0xc5/0x120^M I don't know this code. Perhaps it will be perfectly fine performance wise to just drop out of RCU lookup in this case. -- Mateusz Guzik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in