Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 14:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:13:03 +0800 >> Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > autofs v5 dierct and offset mounts within an autofs filesystem are >> > triggered by existing autofs triger mounts so the mount point dentry >> > must be positive. If the mount point dentry is negative then the >> > trigger doesn't exist so we can return fail immediately. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > --- >> > >> > fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 4 ++++ >> > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> > >> > >> > diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c >> > index cd21fd4..ae637d9 100644 >> > --- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c >> > +++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c >> > @@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi, struct dentry *dentry, >> > if (sbi->catatonic) >> > return -ENOENT; >> > >> > + if (!dentry->d_inode && >> > + (sbi->type & (AUTOFS_TYPE_DIRECT | AUTOFS_TYPE_OFFSET))) >> > + return -ENOENT; >> > + >> > name = kmalloc(NAME_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL); >> > if (!name) >> > return -ENOMEM; >> >> A good changelog would allow little old me to determine whether this >> patch should be merged into 2.6.25 and/or 2.6.26 and/or 2.6.27. This >> wasn't a good changelog :( > > Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have included it along with the other more > serious bug fixes. It gets rid of an annoyance more than anything as the > daemon still has to check for it. > > It isn't important or urgent, just useful. And I'd still like to see a comment in there! ;) -jeff -- 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