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Ian Kent 8f63aaa8b9 autofs4: fix lookup deadlock ... 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 <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		16 years ago
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Kconfig	fs/Kconfig: move autofs, autofs4 out	16 years ago
Makefile	autofs4: add miscellaneous device for ioctls	16 years ago
autofs_i.h	autofs4: cleanup expire code duplication	16 years ago
dev-ioctl.c	autofs4: cleanup expire code duplication	16 years ago
expire.c	autofs4: cleanup expire code duplication	16 years ago
init.c	autofs4: add miscellaneous device for ioctls	16 years ago
inode.c	constify dentry_operations: autofs, autofs4	16 years ago
root.c	autofs4: fix lookup deadlock	16 years ago
symlink.c	[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1	18 years ago
waitq.c	autofs4: make autofs type usage explicit	16 years ago