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SubjectRe: [PATCH] autofs4 - detect invalid direct mount requests
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On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:42 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 14:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:13:03 +0800
> >> Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > autofs v5 dierct and offset mounts within an autofs filesystem are
> >> > triggered by existing autofs triger mounts so the mount point dentry
> >> > must be positive. If the mount point dentry is negative then the
> >> > trigger doesn't exist so we can return fail immediately.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
> >> >
> >> > ---
> >> >
> >> > fs/autofs4/waitq.c | 4 ++++
> >> > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> >> > index cd21fd4..ae637d9 100644
> >> > --- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> >> > +++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
> >> > @@ -307,6 +307,10 @@ int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi, struct dentry *dentry,
> >> > if (sbi->catatonic)
> >> > return -ENOENT;
> >> >
> >> > + if (!dentry->d_inode &&
> >> > + (sbi->type & (AUTOFS_TYPE_DIRECT | AUTOFS_TYPE_OFFSET)))
> >> > + return -ENOENT;
> >> > +
> >> > name = kmalloc(NAME_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> >> > if (!name)
> >> > return -ENOMEM;
> >>
> >> A good changelog would allow little old me to determine whether this
> >> patch should be merged into 2.6.25 and/or 2.6.26 and/or 2.6.27. This
> >> wasn't a good changelog :(
> >
> > Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have included it along with the other more
> > serious bug fixes. It gets rid of an annoyance more than anything as the
> > daemon still has to check for it.
> >
> > It isn't important or urgent, just useful.
>
> And I'd still like to see a comment in there! ;)

OK.

Andrew, could you drop that patch and I'll re-submit it with a better
change log entry.

Ian





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