From: "P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in Autofs, 2.6.15-git
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:54:20 +0200
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Well done Ian!
That patch fixes the problem.
That explains the conditions needed to reproduce the oops. Konqueror would 
perform a number of lookups (some failing) before requesting the mountpoint 
directory.

On Saturday 14 January 2006 7:06 pm, Ian Kent wrote:

> Yes. It's me again.
>
> Could you try this patch please.
>
> --- linux-2.6.15/fs/autofs4/root.c.dumb-nameidata	2006-01-15
> 01:01:26.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-2.6.15/fs/autofs4/root.c	2006-01-15
> 01:02:12.000000000 +0800 @@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ static int
> autofs4_dir_open(struct inode
>  		if (!empty)
>  			d_invalidate(dentry);
>
> +		nd.dentry = dentry;
> +		nd.mnt = mnt;
>  		nd.flags = LOOKUP_DIRECTORY;
>  		status = (dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)(dentry, &nd);
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