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  1. 27 Sep, 2011 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag · b6c8069d
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      That flag no longer makes sense, since we don't look up automount points
as eagerly any more.  Additionally, it turns out that the NO_AUTOMOUNT
handling was buggy to begin with: it would avoid automounting even for
cases where we really *needed* to do the automount handling, and could
return ENOENT for autofs entries that hadn't been instantiated yet.

With our new non-eager automount semantics, one discussion has been
about adding a AT_AUTOMOUNT flag to vfs_fstatat (and thus the
newfstatat() and fstatat64() system calls), but it's probably not worth
it: you can always force at least directory automounting by simply
adding the final '/' to the filename, which works for *all* of the stat
family system calls, old and new.

So AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (and thus LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) really were just a
result of our bad default behavior.
Acked-by: default avatarIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b6c8069d
    • Trond Myklebust's avatar
      VFS: Fix the remaining automounter semantics regressions · 815d405c
      Trond Myklebust authored 
      The concensus seems to be that system calls such as stat() etc should
not trigger an automount.  Neither should the l* versions.

This patch therefore adds a LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flag to tag those lookups
that _should_ trigger an automount on the last path element.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
[ Edited to leave out the cases that are already covered by LOOKUP_OPEN,
  LOOKUP_DIRECTORY and LOOKUP_CREATE - all of which also fundamentally
  force automounting for their own reasons   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      815d405c
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flag · d94c177b
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Since we've now turned around and made LOOKUP_FOLLOW *not* force an
automount, we want to add the ability to force an automount event on
lookup even if we don't happen to have one of the other flags that force
it implicitly (LOOKUP_OPEN, LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, LOOKUP_PARENT..)

Most cases will never want to use this, since you'd normally want to
delay automounting as long as possible, which usually implies
LOOKUP_OPEN (when we open a file or directory, we really cannot avoid
the automount any more).

But Trond argued sufficiently forcefully that at a minimum bind mounting
a file and quotactl will want to force the automount lookup.  Some other
cases (like nfs_follow_remote_path()) could use it too, although
LOOKUP_DIRECTORY would work there as well.

This commit just adds the flag and logic, no users yet, though.  It also
doesn't actually touch the LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag that is related, and
was made irrelevant by the same change that made us not follow on
LOOKUP_FOLLOW.

Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d94c177b
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