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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - detect invalid direct mount requests
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Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> writes:

> autofs v5 dierct and offset mounts within an autofs filesystem are
> triggered by existing autofs triger mounts so the mount point dentry
> must be positive. If the mount point dentry is negative then the
> trigger doesn't exist so we can return fail immediately.

What are the conditions that lead us here in that case?

-Jeff