fix the braino in "namei: massage lookup_slow() to be usable by lookup_one_len_unlocked()"
We should try to trigger automount *before* bailing out on negative dentry.
Reported-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 794f81d..1d9ca2d 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1740,15 +1740,17 @@
nd->flags);
if (IS_ERR(path.dentry))
return PTR_ERR(path.dentry);
- if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) {
- dput(path.dentry);
- return -ENOENT;
- }
+
path.mnt = nd->path.mnt;
err = follow_managed(&path, nd);
if (unlikely(err < 0))
return err;
+ if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) {
+ path_to_nameidata(&path, nd);
+ return -ENOENT;
+ }
+
seq = 0; /* we are already out of RCU mode */
inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry);
}