The patch titled
Subject: autofs: fix Documentation regarding devid on ioctl
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
autofs-fix-documentation-regarding-devid-on-ioctl.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/autofs-fix-documentation-regarding-devid-on-ioctl.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/autofs-fix-documentation-regarding-devid-on-ioctl.patch
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From: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: autofs: fix Documentation regarding devid on ioctl
The explanation on how ioctl handles devid seems incorrect. Userspace who
calls this ioctl has no input regarding devid, and ioctl implementation
retrieves devid via superblock.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160812024825.12352.13486.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <ikent@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt~autofs-fix-documentation-regarding-devid-on-ioctl Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt~autofs-fix-documentation-regarding-devid-on-ioctl
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
@@ -323,9 +323,8 @@ mount on the given path dentry.
The call requires an initialized struct autofs_dev_ioctl with the path
field set to the mount point in question and the size field adjusted
-appropriately as well as the arg1 field set to the device number of the
-containing autofs mount. Upon return the struct field arg1 contains the
-uid and arg2 the gid.
+appropriately. Upon return the struct field arg1 contains the uid and
+arg2 the gid.
When reconstructing an autofs mount tree with active mounts we need to
re-connect to mounts that may have used the original process uid and
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kusumi.tomohiro@xxxxxxxxx are
autofs-fix-typos-in-documentation-filesystems-autofs4txt.patch
autofs-drop-unnecessary-extern-in-autofs_ih.patch
autofs-test-autofs-versions-first-on-sb-initialization.patch
autofs-add-warn_on1-for-non-dir-link-inode-case.patch
autofs-use-autofs4_free_ino-to-kfree-dentry-data.patch
autofs-remove-obsolete-sb-fields.patch
autofs-dont-fail-to-free_dev_ioctlparam.patch
autofs-remove-autofs_devid_len.patch
autofs-fix-documentation-regarding-devid-on-ioctl.patch
autofs-update-struct-autofs_dev_ioctl-in-documentation.patch
autofs-fix-pr_debug-message.patch
autofs-fix-print-format-for-ioctl-warning-message.patch
autofs-move-inclusion-of-linux-limitsh-to-uapi.patch
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