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SubjectRe: [PATCH] autofs4 - use lookup access intent to support recursive bind mounts
FromIan Kent <>
DateMon, 28 Apr 2008 14:38:25 +0800

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 07:22 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:14:54PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > For autofs maps that recursively reference other map entries in their
> > mount point path we need to ensure that these mounts are performed
> > prior to the current mount request being done. We've used the access
> > system call, made just prior to performing the mount, to make this
> > happen. In the case of bind mounts, however, the lookup flags in
> > the path walk don't trigger a mount. To do this we need to also
> > trigger a mount when we see the LOOKUP_ACCESS flag.
>
> That's too fscking bad, since ->lookup() is about to lose access to
> nameidata *and* flags for anything but the last step. IOW, we'll need
> cleaner solution...

Spell it out for me please!
Ian



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