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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - follow_link missing funtionality
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:50:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060310145016.39b028be.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603102003110.3032@eagle.themaw.net>

Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
>
> @@ -337,10 +340,34 @@ static void *autofs4_follow_link(struct 
>  	if (oz_mode || !lookup_type)
>  		goto done;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * If the dentry contains directories then it is an
> +	 * autofs multi-mount with no root offset. So don't
> +	 * try to mount it again.
> +	 */
> +	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
> +	if (!list_empty(&dentry->d_subdirs)) {
> +		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
> +		goto done;
> +	}
> +	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
> +

Can list_empty(&dentry->d_subdirs) become false right here, after the lock
was dropped?  If so, what happens?


>  	status = try_to_fill_dentry(dentry, 0);

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-10 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-10 12:08 Ian Kent
2006-03-10 22:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-11 14:10   ` Ian Kent
2006-03-26 11:51   ` Ian Kent

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