[PATCH] autofs4: avoid panic on bind mount of autofs owned directory
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 <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
index c7b2b88..9c09641 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
+++ b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
@@ -185,6 +185,19 @@
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);