10 Sep, 2011

2 commits

  • * 'for-linus' of git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph-client:
    libceph: fix leak of osd structs during shutdown
    ceph: fix memory leak
    ceph: fix encoding of ino only (not relative) paths
    libceph: fix msgpool

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Prior to 2.6.38 automount would not trigger on either stat(2) or
    lstat(2) on the automount point.

    After 2.6.38, with the introduction of the ->d_automount()
    infrastructure, stat(2) and others would start triggering automount
    while lstat(2), etc. still would not. This is a regression and a
    userspace ABI change.

    Problem originally reported here:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.autofs/6098

    It appears that there was an attempt at fixing various userspace tools
    to not trigger the automount. But since the stat system call is
    rather common it is impossible to "fix" all userspace.

    This patch reverts the original behavior, which is to not trigger on
    stat(2) and other symlink following syscalls.

    [ It's not really clear what the right behavior is. Apparently Solaris
    does the "automount on stat, leave alone on lstat". And some programs
    can get unhappy when "stat+open+fstat" ends up giving a different
    result from the fstat than from the initial stat.

    But the change in 2.6.38 resulted in problems for some people, so
    we're going back to old behavior. Maybe we can re-visit this
    discussion at some future date - Linus ]

    Reported-by: Leonardo Chiquitto
    Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
    Acked-by: Ian Kent
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Miklos Szeredi
     

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