[PATCH] autofs4: check for directory re-create in lookup
commitc9ffec48487849bc277de662a6c29aad64653b99
authorIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:58:10 +0000 (20 13:58 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:10:15 +0000 (20 17:10 -0800)
tree42f848ada18ac6d241a952e55c765305b4278e90
parentf50b6f8691cae2e0064c499dd3ef3f31142987f0
[PATCH] autofs4: check for directory re-create in lookup

This problem was identified and fixed some time ago by Jeff Moyer but it fell
through the cracks somehow.

It is possible that a user space application could remove and re-create a
directory during a request.  To avoid returning a failure from lookup
incorrectly when our current dentry is unhashed we need to check if another
positive, hashed dentry matching this one exists and if so return it instead
of a fail.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/autofs4/root.c