From 97e7449a7ad883bf9f516fc970778d75999c7843 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Kent Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:30:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] autofs4: fix indirect mount pending expire race The selection of a dentry for expiration and the setting of the AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING flag isn't done atomically which can lead to lookups walking into an expiring mount. What happens is that an expire is initiated by the daemon and a dentry is selected for expire but, since there is no lock held between the selection and setting of the expiring flag, a process may find the flag clear and continue walking into the mount tree at the same time the daemon attempts the expire it. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed