Re: Autofs4 breakage (was 2.6.19 -mm merge plans)

Andrew Morton
2006-09-20T22:13:52Z

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:55:33 -0400
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:54 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > add-newline-to-nfs-dprintk.patch
> > fs-nfs-make-code-static.patch
> >
> > NFS queue -> Trond.
> >
> > The NFS git tree breaks autofs4 submounts. Still.
>
> I still suspect that is due to a misconfigured selinux setup on your
> machine.

"still"? I don't recall being told that. Perhaps I was asleep.

It's an up-to-date-a-few-weeks-ago FC5 machine. So if I'm busted then lots
of people are.

> If autofs4 expects to be able to do mkdir() on your NFS
> partition (something which in itself is wrong), then selinux should be
> configured to allow it to do so.
>
> Anyhow, does reverting the patch
>
> http://kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a634904a7de0d3a0bc606f608007a34e8c05bfee;hp=ddeff520f02b92128132c282c350fa72afffb84a
>
> 'fix' the issue for you?
>

I'll take a look this evening.