The patch titled Subject: autofs: make dentry info count consistent has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is autofs-make-dentry-info-count-consistent.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/autofs-make-dentry-info-count-consistent.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: autofs: make dentry info count consistent Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 09:43:06 +0800 If an autofs dentry is a mount root directory there's no ->mkdir() call to set its count to one. To make the dentry info count consistent for all autofs dentries set count to one when the dentry info struct is allocated. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/165724458671.30914.2902424437132835325.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/autofs/inode.c | 1 + fs/autofs/root.c | 4 ---- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/autofs/inode.c~autofs-make-dentry-info-count-consistent +++ a/fs/autofs/inode.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct autofs_info *autofs_new_ino(struc INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ino->expiring); ino->last_used = jiffies; ino->sbi = sbi; + ino->count = 1; } return ino; } --- a/fs/autofs/root.c~autofs-make-dentry-info-count-consistent +++ a/fs/autofs/root.c @@ -582,7 +582,6 @@ static int autofs_dir_symlink(struct use d_add(dentry, inode); dget(dentry); - ino->count++; p_ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry->d_parent); p_ino->count++; @@ -612,7 +611,6 @@ static int autofs_dir_unlink(struct inod struct autofs_info *ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry); struct autofs_info *p_ino; - ino->count--; p_ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry->d_parent); p_ino->count--; dput(ino->dentry); @@ -695,7 +693,6 @@ static int autofs_dir_rmdir(struct inode if (sbi->version < 5) autofs_clear_leaf_automount_flags(dentry); - ino->count--; p_ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry->d_parent); p_ino->count--; dput(ino->dentry); @@ -734,7 +731,6 @@ static int autofs_dir_mkdir(struct user_ autofs_set_leaf_automount_flags(dentry); dget(dentry); - ino->count++; p_ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry->d_parent); p_ino->count++; inc_nlink(dir); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from raven@xxxxxxxxxx are autofs-use-inode-permission-method-for-write-access.patch autofs-make-dentry-info-count-consistent.patch autofs-use-dentry-info-count-instead-of-simple_empty.patch autofs-add-comment-about-autofs_mountpoint_changed.patch autofs-remove-unused-ino-field-inode.patch