The patch titled
autofs4: fix symlink name allocation
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
autofs4-use-look-aside-list-for-lookups-autofs4-fix-symlink-name-allocation.patch
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Subject: autofs4: fix symlink name allocation
From: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
The length of the symlink name has been moved but it needs to be set
before allocating space for it in the dentry info struct. This corrects a
mistake in a recent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/autofs4/root.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-use-look-aside-list-for-lookups-autofs4-fix-symlink-name-allocation fs/autofs4/root.c
--- a/fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-use-look-aside-list-for-lookups-autofs4-fix-symlink-name-allocation
+++ a/fs/autofs4/root.c
@@ -772,6 +772,7 @@ static int autofs4_dir_symlink(struct in
list_del_init(&ino->active);
spin_unlock(&sbi->lookup_lock);
+ ino->size = strlen(symname);
cp = kmalloc(ino->size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!cp) {
if (!dentry->d_fsdata)
@@ -803,7 +804,6 @@ static int autofs4_dir_symlink(struct in
atomic_inc(&p_ino->count);
ino->inode = inode;
- ino->size = strlen(symname);
ino->u.symlink = cp;
dir->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from raven@xxxxxxxxxx are
autofs4-dont-make-expiring-dentry-negative.patch
autofs4-revert-redo-lookup-in-ttfd.patch
autofs4-use-look-aside-list-for-lookups.patch
autofs4-use-look-aside-list-for-lookups-autofs4-fix-symlink-name-allocation.patch
autofs4-dont-release-directory-mutex-if-called-in-oz_mode.patch
autofs4-use-lookup-intent-flags-to-trigger-mounts.patch
autofs4-use-struct-qstr-in-waitqc.patch
autofs4-fix-pending-mount-race.patch
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