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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/autofs4')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c index bcb6c52..35216d1 100644 --- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c +++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c @@ -328,9 +328,20 @@ int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi, struct dentry *dentry, if (sbi->catatonic) return -ENOENT; - if (!dentry->d_inode && - (sbi->type & (AUTOFS_TYPE_DIRECT | AUTOFS_TYPE_OFFSET))) - return -ENOENT; + if (!dentry->d_inode) { + /* + * A wait for a negative dentry is invalid for certain + * cases. A direct or offset mount "always" has its mount + * point directory created and so the request dentry must + * be positive or the map key doesn't exist. The situation + * is very similar for indirect mounts except only dentrys + * in the root of the autofs file system may be negative. + */ + if (sbi->type & (AUTOFS_TYPE_DIRECT|AUTOFS_TYPE_OFFSET)) + return -ENOENT; + else if (!IS_ROOT(dentry->d_parent)) + return -ENOENT; + } name = kmalloc(NAME_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!name) |
