From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>, Will Taber <wtaber@us.ibm.com>,
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>, Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>,
autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC PATCH]autofs4: hang and proposed fix
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:56:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051204125612.GA28229@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133547148.8976.25.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:12:27PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 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.
They are still NULL in exactly one case: lookup_one_len. Given the design
of lookup_one_len we can't get at a nameidata there at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-04 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-16 10:17 [RFC PATCH]autofs4: hang and proposed fix Ram Pai
2005-11-16 12:41 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2005-11-16 16:50 ` Ram Pai
2005-11-16 22:57 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-17 1:52 ` [autofs] " Ram Pai
2005-11-17 18:50 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-17 19:19 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-17 20:39 ` Ram Pai
2005-11-17 22:31 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-18 14:57 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-18 14:54 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-18 14:44 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-18 15:20 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-18 16:30 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-18 17:12 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-18 18:57 ` Ram Pai
2005-11-18 20:08 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-19 2:52 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-21 16:40 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-22 13:13 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-22 17:48 ` [autofs] " William H. Taber
2005-11-23 14:11 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-23 16:42 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-23 17:52 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-23 18:47 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-23 17:52 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-19 1:40 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2005-11-16 15:22 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-11-16 15:22 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-11-16 17:00 ` [autofs] " Ram Pai
2005-11-16 18:25 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-11-16 19:24 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-16 19:51 ` Ram Pai
2005-11-27 10:47 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-28 17:19 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-28 23:12 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-29 14:19 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-29 16:34 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-30 14:02 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-30 16:49 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-30 17:04 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-30 21:10 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-29 14:20 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-30 1:16 ` [autofs] " Jeff Moyer
2005-11-30 1:16 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-11-30 1:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-30 4:15 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-11-30 6:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-30 15:44 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-30 15:53 ` [autofs] " Trond Myklebust
2005-11-30 16:12 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-30 16:27 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-30 16:45 ` [autofs] " Trond Myklebust
2005-11-30 20:32 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-30 20:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-30 21:30 ` William H. Taber
2005-11-30 22:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-01 16:27 ` William H. Taber
2005-12-01 12:09 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-01 16:30 ` William H. Taber
2005-12-02 13:49 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-02 14:07 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-12-02 15:21 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-02 16:35 ` [autofs] " Will Taber
2005-12-02 17:11 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-02 15:34 ` Will Taber
2005-12-02 17:29 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-02 18:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-04 12:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-12-04 12:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-04 14:58 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-04 17:17 ` [autofs] " Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-05 14:02 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-06 21:20 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-12-06 21:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-06 22:37 ` Jeff Moyer
2005-12-07 14:52 ` Will Taber
2005-12-07 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-07 15:22 ` Brian Long
2005-12-07 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-07 17:46 ` Will Taber
2005-12-08 14:16 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-09 12:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-09 13:33 ` John T. Kohl
2005-12-13 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-04 14:56 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-02 19:04 ` [autofs] " Will Taber
2005-12-04 9:39 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-02 16:04 ` [autofs] " Jeff Moyer
2005-12-02 17:36 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-02 18:33 ` [autofs] " Will Taber
2005-12-04 9:52 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-04 14:54 ` Ian Kent
2005-12-05 15:40 ` Ian Kent
2005-11-30 14:48 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
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