Hi Andrew, During testing I've found that the mount pending flag can be left set at exit from autofs4_lookup after a failed mount request. This shouldn't be allowed to happen and causes incorrect error returns. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Ian -- --- linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2/fs/autofs4/root.c.clear-pending 2006-08-20 13:20:23.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2/fs/autofs4/root.c 2006-08-20 13:21:30.000000000 +0800 @@ -281,9 +281,6 @@ static int try_to_fill_dentry(struct den DPRINTK("mount done status=%d", status); - if (status && dentry->d_inode) - return status; /* Try to get the kernel to invalidate this dentry */ - /* Turn this into a real negative dentry? */ if (status == -ENOENT) { spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); @@ -540,6 +537,9 @@ static struct dentry *autofs4_lookup(str return ERR_PTR(-ERESTARTNOINTR); } } + spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); + dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_AUTOFS_PENDING; + spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); } /* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html