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<title>autofs4: remove hashed check in validate_wait()</title>
<updated>2009-06-09T23:59:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>raven@themaw.net</email>
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<published>2009-06-09T23:26:24+00:00</published>
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The recent -&gt;lookup() deadlock correction required the directory inode
mutex to be dropped while waiting for expire completion.  We were
concerned about side effects from this change and one has been identified.

I saw several error messages.

They cause autofs to become quite confused and don't really point to the
actual problem.

Things like:

handle_packet_missing_direct:1376: can't find map entry for (43,1827932)

which is usually totally fatal (although in this case it wouldn't be
except that I treat is as such because it normally is).

do_mount_direct: direct trigger not valid or already mounted
/test/nested/g3c/s1/ss1

which is recoverable, however if this problem is at play it can cause
autofs to become quite confused as to the dependencies in the mount tree
because mount triggers end up mounted multiple times.  It's hard to
accurately check for this over mounting case and automount shouldn't need
to if the kernel module is doing its job.

There was one other message, similar in consequence of this last one but I
can't locate a log example just now.

When checking if a mount has already completed prior to adding a new mount
request to the wait queue we check if the dentry is hashed and, if so, if
it is a mount point.  But, if a mount successfully completed while we
slept on the wait queue mutex the dentry must exist for the mount to have
completed so the test is not really needed.

Mounts can also be done on top of a global root dentry, so for the above
case, where a mount request completes and the wait queue entry has already
been removed, the hashed test returning false can cause an incorrect
callback to the daemon.  Also, d_mountpoint() is not sufficient to check
if a mount has completed for the multi-mount case when we don't have a
real mount at the base of the tree.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The recent -&gt;lookup() deadlock correction required the directory inode
mutex to be dropped while waiting for expire completion.  We were
concerned about side effects from this change and one has been identified.

I saw several error messages.

They cause autofs to become quite confused and don't really point to the
actual problem.

Things like:

handle_packet_missing_direct:1376: can't find map entry for (43,1827932)

which is usually totally fatal (although in this case it wouldn't be
except that I treat is as such because it normally is).

do_mount_direct: direct trigger not valid or already mounted
/test/nested/g3c/s1/ss1

which is recoverable, however if this problem is at play it can cause
autofs to become quite confused as to the dependencies in the mount tree
because mount triggers end up mounted multiple times.  It's hard to
accurately check for this over mounting case and automount shouldn't need
to if the kernel module is doing its job.

There was one other message, similar in consequence of this last one but I
can't locate a log example just now.

When checking if a mount has already completed prior to adding a new mount
request to the wait queue we check if the dentry is hashed and, if so, if
it is a mount point.  But, if a mount successfully completed while we
slept on the wait queue mutex the dentry must exist for the mount to have
completed so the test is not really needed.

Mounts can also be done on top of a global root dentry, so for the above
case, where a mount request completes and the wait queue entry has already
been removed, the hashed test returning false can cause an incorrect
callback to the daemon.  Also, d_mountpoint() is not sufficient to check
if a mount has completed for the multi-mount case when we don't have a
real mount at the base of the tree.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>autofs4: fix incorrect return in autofs4_mount_busy()</title>
<updated>2009-05-02T22:36:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>raven@themaw.net</email>
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<published>2009-04-30T22:08:09+00:00</published>
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Fix an obvious incorrect return status in autofs4_mount_busy().

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix an obvious incorrect return status in autofs4_mount_busy().

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>autofs4: use memchr() in invalid_string()</title>
<updated>2009-04-21T03:02:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2009-04-07T15:12:46+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Fix AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_REQUESTER_CMD</title>
<updated>2009-04-21T03:01:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2009-04-07T13:03:30+00:00</published>
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Missing conversion from kernel to userland dev_t; this sucker
breaks as soon as we get sufficiently many autofs mounts for
new_encode_dev(s_dev) != s_dev.

Note: this is the minimal fix.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Missing conversion from kernel to userland dev_t; this sucker
breaks as soon as we get sufficiently many autofs mounts for
new_encode_dev(s_dev) != s_dev.

Note: this is the minimal fix.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>autofs4: fix lookup deadlock</title>
<updated>2009-04-01T15:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>raven@themaw.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-31T22:24:45+00:00</published>
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A deadlock can occur when user space uses a signal (autofs version 4 uses
SIGCHLD for this) to effect expire completion.

The order of events is:

Expire process completes, but before being able to send SIGCHLD to it's parent
...

Another process walks onto a different mount point and drops the directory
inode semaphore prior to sending the request to the daemon as it must ...

A third process does an lstat on on the expired mount point causing it to wait
on expire completion (unfortunately) holding the directory semaphore.

The mount request then arrives at the daemon which does an lstat and,
deadlock.

For some time I was concerned about releasing the directory semaphore around
the expire wait in autofs4_lookup as well as for the mount call back.  I
finally realized that the last round of changes in this function made the
expiring dentry and the lookup dentry separate and distinct so the check and
possible wait can be done anywhere prior to the mount call back.  This patch
moves the check to just before the mount call back and inside the directory
inode mutex release.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A deadlock can occur when user space uses a signal (autofs version 4 uses
SIGCHLD for this) to effect expire completion.

The order of events is:

Expire process completes, but before being able to send SIGCHLD to it's parent
...

Another process walks onto a different mount point and drops the directory
inode semaphore prior to sending the request to the daemon as it must ...

A third process does an lstat on on the expired mount point causing it to wait
on expire completion (unfortunately) holding the directory semaphore.

The mount request then arrives at the daemon which does an lstat and,
deadlock.

For some time I was concerned about releasing the directory semaphore around
the expire wait in autofs4_lookup as well as for the mount call back.  I
finally realized that the last round of changes in this function made the
expiring dentry and the lookup dentry separate and distinct so the check and
possible wait can be done anywhere prior to the mount call back.  This patch
moves the check to just before the mount call back and inside the directory
inode mutex release.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>autofs4: cleanup expire code duplication</title>
<updated>2009-04-01T15:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>raven@themaw.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-31T22:24:43+00:00</published>
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A significant portion of the autofs_dev_ioctl_expire() and
autofs4_expire_multi() functions is duplicated code.  This patch cleans that
up.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A significant portion of the autofs_dev_ioctl_expire() and
autofs4_expire_multi() functions is duplicated code.  This patch cleans that
up.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>constify dentry_operations: autofs, autofs4</title>
<updated>2009-03-27T18:44:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-20T05:56:19+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/Kconfig: move autofs, autofs4 out</title>
<updated>2009-01-22T10:15:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-22T07:31:56+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>autofs4: fix string validation check order</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T23:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>raven@themaw.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-06T22:42:09+00:00</published>
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In function validate_dev_ioctl() we check that the string we've been sent
is a valid path.  The function that does this check assumes the string is
NULL terminated but our NULL termination check isn't done until after this
call.  This patch changes the order of the check.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In function validate_dev_ioctl() we check that the string we've been sent
is a valid path.  The function that does this check assumes the string is
NULL terminated but our NULL termination check isn't done until after this
call.  This patch changes the order of the check.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>autofs4: make autofs type usage explicit</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T23:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>raven@themaw.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-06T22:42:08+00:00</published>
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- the type assigned at mount when no type is given is changed
  from 0 to AUTOFS_TYPE_INDIRECT. This was done because 0 and
  AUTOFS_TYPE_INDIRECT were being treated implicitly as the same
  type.

- previously, an offset mount had it's type set to
  AUTOFS_TYPE_DIRECT|AUTOFS_TYPE_OFFSET but the mount control
  re-implementation needs to be able distinguish all three types.
  So this was changed to make the type setting explicit.

- a type AUTOFS_TYPE_ANY was added for use by the re-implementation
  when checking if a given path is a mountpoint. It's not really a
  type as we use this to ask if a given path is a mountpoint in the
  autofs_dev_ioctl_ismountpoint() function.

- functions to set and test the autofs mount types have been added to
  improve readability and make the type usage explicit.

- the mount type is used from user space for the mount control
  re-implementtion so, for consistency, all the definitions have
  been moved to the user space include file include/linux/auto_fs4.h.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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- the type assigned at mount when no type is given is changed
  from 0 to AUTOFS_TYPE_INDIRECT. This was done because 0 and
  AUTOFS_TYPE_INDIRECT were being treated implicitly as the same
  type.

- previously, an offset mount had it's type set to
  AUTOFS_TYPE_DIRECT|AUTOFS_TYPE_OFFSET but the mount control
  re-implementation needs to be able distinguish all three types.
  So this was changed to make the type setting explicit.

- a type AUTOFS_TYPE_ANY was added for use by the re-implementation
  when checking if a given path is a mountpoint. It's not really a
  type as we use this to ask if a given path is a mountpoint in the
  autofs_dev_ioctl_ismountpoint() function.

- functions to set and test the autofs mount types have been added to
  improve readability and make the type usage explicit.

- the mount type is used from user space for the mount control
  re-implementtion so, for consistency, all the definitions have
  been moved to the user space include file include/linux/auto_fs4.h.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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