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SubjectRe: [BUG] 2.6.19-rc3 autofs crash on my IA64 box
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On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 18:51 +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> Hello.
>
> > hi,
> > 2.6.19-rc3 kernel crashes on my IA64 box, it seems the problem
> > of autofs fs. I debug this problem, if autofs kernel does not
> > match daemon version, it will call autofs_catatonic_mode.
> > But at that time sbi->pipe is NULL.
> >
> > void autofs_catatonic_mode(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi)
> > {
> > .........
> > fput(sbi->pipe); /* Close the pipe */
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > sbi->pipe seems NULL;
> > autofs_hash_dputall(&sbi->dirhash); /* Remove all dentry pointers */
> > }
> >
>
> My box crashed too.
>
> Following fix does not seem enough.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116110204104327&w=2

I'm not surprised it addresses a completely different problem.

> If version does not match at autofs_fill_super(), then sbi->pipe
> is not set yet.
> I suppose something like following patch is necessary.

At least but I'll need to check a bit further into this and the autofs4
module should be updated in a similar manner. Even though it will
support the latest requested version it should still handle this error
case.

Ian


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