On Tue, Aug 8, 2017, at 12:26 AM, Ian Kent wrote: > --- a/include/linux/fs.h > +++ b/include/linux/fs.h > @@ -3022,8 +3022,7 @@ static inline int vfs_lstat(const char __user *name, struct kstat *stat) > static inline int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, > struct kstat *stat, int flags) > { > - return vfs_statx(dfd, filename, flags | AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, > - stat, STATX_BASIC_STATS); > + return vfs_statx(dfd, filename, flags, stat, STATX_BASIC_STATS); > } > static inline int vfs_fstat(int fd, struct kstat *stat) > { This is reverting the fstatat() prat of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=deccf497d804a4c5fca2dbfad2f104675a6f9102 Which itself seems weird to me - it looks like we were unconditionally forcing on AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT regardless of what userspace passed? So perhaps a Fixes: deccf497d804a4c5fca2dbfad2f104675a6f9102 is appropriate here? I understand that for stat()/lstat() we didn't expose the option to userspace, so the behavior was...ah, there's this note in man-pages (man-pages-4.09-3.fc26.noarch): > On Linux, lstat() will generally not trigger automounter action, whereas stat() will (but see fstatat(2)). I have no idea of the history here, but maybe it makes sense to drop the AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT from the vfs_stat() too?