From: Ian Kent While this is not a solution to bind and move mounts on autofs owned directories it is necessary to fix the trady error handling. At least it avoids the kernel panic I observed checking out bug #4589. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h | 13 +++++++++++++ fs/autofs4/expire.c | 5 +---- fs/autofs4/root.c | 6 +++++- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h~autofs4-avoid-panic-on-bind-mount-of-autofs-owned-directory fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h --- 25/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h~autofs4-avoid-panic-on-bind-mount-of-autofs-owned-directory 2005-06-05 23:34:50.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h 2005-06-05 23:34:50.000000000 -0700 @@ -185,6 +185,19 @@ int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info * int autofs4_wait_release(struct autofs_sb_info *,autofs_wqt_t,int); void autofs4_catatonic_mode(struct autofs_sb_info *); +static inline int autofs4_follow_mount(struct vfsmount **mnt, struct dentry **dentry) +{ + int res = 0; + + while (d_mountpoint(*dentry)) { + int followed = follow_down(mnt, dentry); + if (!followed) + break; + res = 1; + } + return res; +} + static inline int simple_positive(struct dentry *dentry) { return dentry->d_inode && !d_unhashed(dentry); diff -puN fs/autofs4/expire.c~autofs4-avoid-panic-on-bind-mount-of-autofs-owned-directory fs/autofs4/expire.c --- 25/fs/autofs4/expire.c~autofs4-avoid-panic-on-bind-mount-of-autofs-owned-directory 2005-06-05 23:34:50.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/autofs4/expire.c 2005-06-05 23:34:50.000000000 -0700 @@ -56,12 +56,9 @@ static int autofs4_check_mount(struct vf mntget(mnt); dget(dentry); - if (!follow_down(&mnt, &dentry)) + if (!autofs4_follow_mount(&mnt, &dentry)) goto done; - while (d_mountpoint(dentry) && follow_down(&mnt, &dentry)) - ; - /* This is an autofs submount, we can't expire it */ if (is_autofs4_dentry(dentry)) goto done; diff -puN fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-avoid-panic-on-bind-mount-of-autofs-owned-directory fs/autofs4/root.c --- 25/fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-avoid-panic-on-bind-mount-of-autofs-owned-directory 2005-06-05 23:34:50.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/autofs4/root.c 2005-06-05 23:34:50.000000000 -0700 @@ -205,7 +205,11 @@ static int autofs4_dir_open(struct inode struct vfsmount *fp_mnt = mntget(mnt); struct dentry *fp_dentry = dget(dentry); - while (follow_down(&fp_mnt, &fp_dentry) && d_mountpoint(fp_dentry)); + if (!autofs4_follow_mount(&fp_mnt, &fp_dentry)) { + dput(fp_dentry); + mntput(fp_mnt); + return -ENOENT; + } fp = dentry_open(fp_dentry, fp_mnt, file->f_flags); status = PTR_ERR(fp); _