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vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag

That flag no longer makes sense, since we don't look up automount points
as eagerly any more.  Additionally, it turns out that the NO_AUTOMOUNT
handling was buggy to begin with: it would avoid automounting even for
cases where we really *needed* to do the automount handling, and could
return ENOENT for autofs entries that hadn't been instantiated yet.

With our new non-eager automount semantics, one discussion has been
about adding a AT_AUTOMOUNT flag to vfs_fstatat (and thus the
newfstatat() and fstatat64() system calls), but it's probably not worth
it: you can always force at least directory automounting by simply
adding the final '/' to the filename, which works for *all* of the stat
family system calls, old and new.

So AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (and thus LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) really were just a
result of our bad default behavior.

Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds 13 years ago
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3 changed files with 1 additions and 9 deletions
  1. 0 6
      fs/namei.c
  2. 0 2
      fs/stat.c
  3. 1 1
      include/linux/namei.h

+ 0 - 6
fs/namei.c

@@ -721,12 +721,6 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
 	if (!path->dentry->d_op || !path->dentry->d_op->d_automount)
 		return -EREMOTE;
 
-	/* We don't want to mount if someone supplied AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
-	 * and this is the terminal part of the path.
-	 */
-	if ((flags & LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) && !(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT))
-		return -EISDIR; /* we actually want to stop here */
-
 	/* We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat -
 	 * unless they're stat'ing a directory and appended a '/' to
 	 * the name.

+ 0 - 2
fs/stat.c

@@ -81,8 +81,6 @@ int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat,
 
 	if (!(flag & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW))
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
-	if (flag & AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT)
-		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT;
 	if (flag & AT_EMPTY_PATH)
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_EMPTY;
 

+ 1 - 1
include/linux/namei.h

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND};
 #define LOOKUP_PARENT		0x0010
 #define LOOKUP_REVAL		0x0020
 #define LOOKUP_RCU		0x0040
-#define LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT	0x0080
+
 /*
  * Intent data
  */