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

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Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:13:31 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Autofs4 breakage (was 2.6.19 -mm merge plans)

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:55:33 -0400
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....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.
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