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authorIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>2005-06-21 17:16:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-21 19:07:35 -0700
commit9b1e3afd6d56937ced3914971621d0f053ea9178 (patch)
tree059762a20c069273247b423b6075adcd89624e42 /fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
parent8818760512424f60ad9fafb7a087b007a9274eb3 (diff)
[PATCH] autofs4: avoid panic on bind mount of autofs owned directory
While this is not a solution to bind and move mounts on autofs owned directories it is necessary to fix the trady error handling. At least it avoids the kernel panic I observed checking out bug #4589. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
index c7b2b889018..9c09641ce90 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
+++ b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
@@ -185,6 +185,19 @@ int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *,struct dentry *, enum autofs_notify);
int autofs4_wait_release(struct autofs_sb_info *,autofs_wqt_t,int);
void autofs4_catatonic_mode(struct autofs_sb_info *);
+static inline int autofs4_follow_mount(struct vfsmount **mnt, struct dentry **dentry)
+{
+ int res = 0;
+
+ while (d_mountpoint(*dentry)) {
+ int followed = follow_down(mnt, dentry);
+ if (!followed)
+ break;
+ res = 1;
+ }
+ return res;
+}
+
static inline int simple_positive(struct dentry *dentry)
{
return dentry->d_inode && !d_unhashed(dentry);