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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	autofs mailing list <autofs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] autofs: dont trigger mount if it cant succeed
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:16:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251111101635.GV2441659@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b7aee07-cf68-4186-b81d-2c4d9e44cc55@themaw.net>

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 06:13:19PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> Anyway, for the moment, I think your saying just taking an ns_common
> reference
> 
> will be problematic as well.

If it is persistent - definitely.  We'd get a massive leak, since
namespace is torn apart when the refcount drops to zero.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-11 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-11  6:04 [PATCH 0/2] autofs: fairly minor fixes Ian Kent
2025-11-11  6:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] autofs: fix per-dentry timeout warning Ian Kent
2025-12-02 23:19   ` Ian Kent
2025-11-11  6:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] autofs: dont trigger mount if it cant succeed Ian Kent
2025-11-11  6:59   ` Al Viro
2025-11-11  8:25     ` Ian Kent
2025-11-11  9:04       ` Al Viro
2025-11-11 10:13         ` Ian Kent
2025-11-11 10:16           ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-11-11 10:19   ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-11 10:24     ` Al Viro
2025-11-11 10:55       ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-11 12:27         ` Ian Kent
2025-11-12 11:01           ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-13  0:14             ` Ian Kent
2025-11-13 13:19               ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-13 23:49                 ` Ian Kent
2025-11-14  0:07                   ` Ian Kent
2025-11-14 11:44                   ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-14 13:42                     ` Ian Kent

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