Re: [PATCH] autofs4 - detect invalid direct mount requests

From: Jeff Moyer
Date: Fri Jun 20 2008 - 09:01:23 EST


Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> autofs v5 dierct and offset mounts within an autofs filesystem are
> triggered by existing autofs triger mounts so the mount point dentry
> must be positive. If the mount point dentry is negative then the
> trigger doesn't exist so we can return fail immediately.

What are the conditions that lead us here in that case?

-Jeff
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