Commit be3ca7fe authored Sep 29, 2006 by Ian Kent Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 29, 2006

[PATCH] autofs4: autofs4_follow_link false negative fix



The check for an empty directory in the autofs4_follow_link method fails
occassionally due to old dentrys.  We had the same problem
autofs4_revalidate ages ago.  I thought we wouldn't need this in
autofs4_follow_link, silly me.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 5b160f5e

fs/autofs4/root.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static void autofs4_follow_link(struct dentry dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
		* don't try to mount it again.
		*/
		spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
		if (!d_mountpoint(dentry) && list_empty(&dentry->d_subdirs)) {
		if (!d_mountpoint(dentry) && __simple_empty(dentry)) {
		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);

		status = try_to_fill_dentry(dentry, 0);