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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.26-rc4
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On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:48 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:37:59PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=12419&msgid=
> > >
> > > Looks like a negative inode in S_ISDIR(mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mode),
> > > which would be due to NFS not properly filling in its root dentry?
> >
> > On second thought it's S_ISDIR(path->dentry->d_inode->i_mode), which
> > means it's an autofs thing.
>
> It is path->dentry, all right, but the question is how'd it get that way.
> Look: we got that nd.path.dentry out of path_lookup() with LOOKUP_FOLLOW
> as flags. Then we'd passed it through do_new_mount() to do_add_mount()
> without changes. And went through
> /* Something was mounted here while we slept */
> while (d_mountpoint(nd->path.dentry) &&
> follow_down(&nd->path.mnt, &nd->path.dentry))
> ;

And this relates to previous in that a mount isn't done by autofs until
until after the directory is created, at which time the (->mkdir())
dentry is hashed.

Ian




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