linux/fs/autofs4/symlink.c
Ian Kent 8dc51fe5ab autofs: fix symlinks aren't checked for expiry
The autofs4 module doesn't consider symlinks for expire as it did in the
older autofs v3 module (so it's actually a long standing regression).

The user space daemon has focused on the use of bind mounts instead of
symlinks for a long time now and that's why this has not been noticed.
But with the future addition of amd map parsing to automount(8), not to
mention amd itself (of am-utils), symlink expiry will be needed.

The direct and offset mount types can't be symlinks and the tree mounts of
version 4 were always real mounts so only indirect mounts need expire
symlinks.

Since the current users of the autofs4 module haven't reported this as a
problem to date this patch probably isn't a candidate for backport to
stable.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23 16:36:59 -08:00

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/* -*- c -*- --------------------------------------------------------------- *
*
* linux/fs/autofs/symlink.c
*
* Copyright 1997-1998 Transmeta Corporation -- All Rights Reserved
*
* This file is part of the Linux kernel and is made available under
* the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, or at your
* option, any later version, incorporated herein by reference.
*
* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
#include "autofs_i.h"
static void *autofs4_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
{
struct autofs_sb_info *sbi = autofs4_sbi(dentry->d_sb);
struct autofs_info *ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
if (ino && !autofs4_oz_mode(sbi))
ino->last_used = jiffies;
nd_set_link(nd, dentry->d_inode->i_private);
return NULL;
}
const struct inode_operations autofs4_symlink_inode_operations = {
.readlink = generic_readlink,
.follow_link = autofs4_follow_link
};