Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:47:34 +0900
From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.19-rc3 autofs crash on my IA64 box
Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Hi.

> I've checked this and this is not the only problem.
> Also autofs4_ is called with s->s_root NULL in this case.
> 
> The attached patch ensures that the autofs filesystem is initialized to be 
> catatonic until super block setup is complete which avoids the problem 
> above. It also checks s->s_root before use.
> 
> Could someone seeing this problem try this patch out please.

Sorry for late response. I was off.
I tested your patch on my box. It worked well.

Thanks a lot. :-)


-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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