linux/fs/autofs4
Ian Kent 6e60a9ab5f autofs4: fix direct mount pending expire race
For direct and offset type mounts that are covered by another mount we
cannot check the AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING flag during a path walk which leads
to lookups walking into an expiring mount while it is being expired.

For example, for the direct multi-mount map entry with a couple of
offsets:

/race/mm1  /      <server1>:/<path1>
           /om1   <server2>:/<path2>
           /om2   <server1>:/<path3>

an autofs trigger mount is mounted on /race/mm1 and when accessed it is
over mounted and trigger mounts made for /race/mm1/om1 and /race/mm1/om2.
So it isn't possible for path walks to see the expiring flag at all and
they happily walk into the file system while it is expiring.

When expiring these mounts follow_down() must stop at the autofs mount and
all processes must block in the ->follow_link() method (except the daemon)
until the expire is complete.  This is done by decrementing the d_mounted
field of the autofs trigger mount root dentry until the expire is
completed.  In ->follow_link() all processes wait on the expire and the
mount following is completed for the daemon until the expire is complete.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:32 -07:00
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autofs_i.h autofs4: fix direct mount pending expire race 2008-07-24 10:47:32 -07:00
expire.c autofs4: fix direct mount pending expire race 2008-07-24 10:47:32 -07:00
init.c [PATCH] AUTOFS: Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_anon_super() 2006-10-11 11:14:25 -07:00
inode.c autofs4: fix waitq locking 2008-07-24 10:47:32 -07:00
Makefile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
root.c autofs4: fix direct mount pending expire race 2008-07-24 10:47:32 -07:00
symlink.c [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
waitq.c autofs4: indirect dentry must almost always be positive 2008-07-24 10:47:32 -07:00