From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964841AbWARGyf (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:54:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbWARGye (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:54:34 -0500 Received: from 203-59-65-76.dyn.iinet.net.au ([203.59.65.76]:56473 "EHLO eagle.themaw.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751366AbWARGun (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:50:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:48:39 +0800 Message-Id: <200601180648.k0I6mdHm005830@eagle.themaw.net> From: Ian Kent To: Andrew Morton Cc: Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@linux.kernel.org Title: [PATCH 3/13] autofs4 - can't mount due to mount point dir not empty Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch addresses a problem where stale dentrys stop mounts from happening. When a mount point directory is pre-created and a non-existent entry within it is requested a dentry ends up being created within the mount point directory which stops future mounts. The problem is solved by ignoring negative, unhashed dentrys in the mount point d_subdirs list. Additionally the apparent cacheing of -ENOENT returns from requests is removed. The test on d_time is a tautology and d_time is not initialised and has an unexpected value. In short it doesn't do what it's meant to. The cacheing of failed requests to the daemon is important and will be followed up later. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent --- linux-2.6.15-mm3/fs/autofs4/root.c.failed-lookup 2006-01-13 16:12:20.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.15-mm3/fs/autofs4/root.c 2006-01-13 16:13:33.000000000 +0800 @@ -294,14 +294,13 @@ static int try_to_fill_dentry(struct vfs /* Turn this into a real negative dentry? */ if (status == -ENOENT) { - dentry->d_time = jiffies + AUTOFS_NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT; spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_AUTOFS_PENDING; spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); - return 1; + return 0; } else if (status) { /* Return a negative dentry, but leave it "pending" */ - return 1; + return 0; } /* Trigger mount for path component or follow link */ } else if (flags & (LOOKUP_CONTINUE | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) || @@ -360,13 +359,13 @@ static int autofs4_revalidate(struct den /* Negative dentry.. invalidate if "old" */ if (dentry->d_inode == NULL) - return (dentry->d_time - jiffies <= AUTOFS_NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT); + return 0; /* Check for a non-mountpoint directory with no contents */ spin_lock(&dcache_lock); if (S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode) && !d_mountpoint(dentry) && - list_empty(&dentry->d_subdirs)) { + simple_empty_nolock(dentry)) { DPRINTK("dentry=%p %.*s, emptydir", dentry, dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name); spin_unlock(&dcache_lock); --- linux-2.6.15-mm3/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h.failed-lookup 2006-01-13 16:05:10.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.15-mm3/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h 2006-01-13 16:13:33.000000000 +0800 @@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ #define AUTOFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x0187 -/* - * If the daemon returns a negative response (AUTOFS_IOC_FAIL) then the - * kernel will keep the negative response cached for up to the time given - * here, although the time can be shorter if the kernel throws the dcache - * entry away. This probably should be settable from user space. - */ -#define AUTOFS_NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT (60*HZ) /* 1 minute */ - /* Unified info structure. This is pointed to by both the dentry and inode structures. Each file in the filesystem has an instance of this structure. It holds a reference to the dentry, so dentries are never