From: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> It is possible for the check in wait.c:validate_request() to return an incorrect result if the dentry that was mounted upon has changed during the callback. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c index 2341375..f3792ff 100644 --- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c +++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c @@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ static int validate_request(struct autofs_wait_queue **wait, * completed while we waited on the mutex ... */ if (notify == NFY_MOUNT) { + struct dentry *new = NULL; + int valid = 1; + /* * If the dentry was successfully mounted while we slept * on the wait queue mutex we can return success. If it @@ -303,8 +306,20 @@ static int validate_request(struct autofs_wait_queue **wait, * a multi-mount with no mount at it's base) we can * continue on and create a new request. */ + if (!IS_ROOT(dentry)) { + if (dentry->d_inode && d_unhashed(dentry)) { + struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent; + new = d_lookup(parent, &dentry->d_name); + if (new) + dentry = new; + } + } if (have_submounts(dentry)) - return 0; + valid = 0; + + if (new) + dput(new); + return valid; } return 1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html