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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC PATCH]autofs4: hang and proposed fix
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:12:27 -0500
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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 01:29 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> It's sufficient to recognize the nameidata struct is NULL on a call 
> from lookup_hash nothing more that I'm aware of is needed. If that changes 
> then of course autofs will need to be changed. autofs also makes 
> assumptions about what flags are set for different reasons.

Consider those cases where the VFS calls ->lookup()/->d_revalidate()
with the nameidata argument set to NULL to be bugs. They are pretty much
all slated to be fixed soon in order to enable features like read-only
bind mounts etc.

Cheers,
  Trond