On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:47:23 +0800
Ian Kent <[email protected]> wrote:

> When reconnecting to automounts at startup an autofs ioctl is used
> to find the device and inode of existing mounts so they can be used
> to open a file descriptor of possibly covered mounts.
> 
> At this time the the caller might not yet "own" the mount so it can
> trigger calling ->d_automount(). This causes automount to hang when
> trying to reconnect to direct or offset mount types.
> 
> Consequently kern_path() can't be used but path_mntpointat() can be.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c |   23 ++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> index 9183821..228866f 100644
> --- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> @@ -183,13 +183,14 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_protosubver(struct file *fp,
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/* Find the topmost mount satisfying test() */
>  static int find_autofs_mount(const char *pathname,
>                            struct path *res,
>                            int test(struct path *path, void *data),
>                            void *data)
>  {
>       struct path path;
> -     int err = kern_path(pathname, 0, &path);
> +     int err = user_path_mntpointat(AT_FDCWD, pathname, 0, &path);

This looks wrong. "pathname" is a kernel string, not a __user one. I
think what you need to do here is to turn user_path_mntpointat into a
wrapper around a kern_path_mntpointat equivalent and then call that
here.

>       if (err)
>               return err;
>       err = -ENOENT;
> @@ -197,10 +198,9 @@ static int find_autofs_mount(const char *pathname,
>               if (path.dentry->d_sb->s_magic == AUTOFS_SUPER_MAGIC) {
>                       if (test(&path, data)) {
>                               path_get(&path);
> -                             if (!err) /* already found some */
> -                                     path_put(res);
>                               *res = path;
>                               err = 0;
> +                             break;
>                       }
>               }
>               if (!follow_up(&path))
> @@ -498,12 +498,11 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_askumount(struct file *fp,
>   * mount if there is one or 0 if it isn't a mountpoint.
>   *
>   * If we aren't supplied with a file descriptor then we
> - * lookup the nameidata of the path and check if it is the
> - * root of a mount. If a type is given we are looking for
> - * a particular autofs mount and if we don't find a match
> - * we return fail. If the located nameidata path is the
> - * root of a mount we return 1 along with the super magic
> - * of the mount or 0 otherwise.
> + * lookup the path and check if it is the root of a mount.
> + * If a type is given we are looking for a particular autofs
> + * mount and if we don't find a match we return fail. If the
> + * located path is the root of a mount we return 1 along with
> + * the super magic of the mount or 0 otherwise.
>   *
>   * In both cases the the device number (as returned by
>   * new_encode_dev()) is also returned.
> @@ -531,9 +530,11 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_ismountpoint(struct file *fp,
>  
>       if (!fp || param->ioctlfd == -1) {
>               if (autofs_type_any(type))
> -                     err = kern_path(name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
> +                     err = user_path_mntpointat(AT_FDCWD,
> +                                                name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
>               else
> -                     err = find_autofs_mount(name, &path, test_by_type, 
> &type);
> +                     err = find_autofs_mount(name, &path,
> +                                             test_by_type, &type);


...ditto in these spots of course...

>               if (err)
>                       goto out;
>               devid = new_encode_dev(path.dentry->d_sb->s_dev);
> 


-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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