[PATCH] autofs4 - fix expire check

[PATCH] autofs4 - fix expire check

[Ian Kent]

From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>

In some cases when an autofs indirect mount is contained in a file
system that is marked as shared (such as when systemd does the
equivalent of "mount --make-rshared /" early in the boot), mounts
stop expiring.

When this happens the first expiry check on a mountpoint dentry in
autofs_expire_indirect() sees a mountpoint dentry with a higher
than minimal reference count. Consequently the dentry is condidered
busy and the actual expiry check is never done.

This particular check was originally meant as an optimisation to
detect a path walk in progress but with the addition of rcu-walk
it can be ineffective anyway.

Removing the test allows automounts to expire again since the
actual expire check doesn't rely on the dentry reference count.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
---

 fs/autofs4/expire.c |    5 -----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/expire.c b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
index 8c0e56d..842d000 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/expire.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
@@ -399,11 +399,6 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_indirect(struct super_block *sb,
 			DPRINTK("checking mountpoint %p %.*s",
 				dentry, (int)dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);
 
-			/* Path walk currently on this dentry? */
-			ino_count = atomic_read(&ino->count) + 2;
-			if (dentry->d_count > ino_count)
-				goto next;
-
 			/* Can we umount this guy */
 			if (autofs4_mount_busy(mnt, dentry))
 				goto next;