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SubjectRe: [PATCH] autofs4 - detect invalid direct mount requests
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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! ;)

-jeff


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