linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 20/96] autofs: dont fail mount for transient error

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Message-ID: <1512511180.18523.185.camel@codethink.co.uk>
Date:   Tue, 05 Dec 2017 21:59:40 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 20/96] autofs: dont fail mount for transient error

On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 11:22 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
> 
> commit ecc0c469f27765ed1e2b967be0aa17cee1a60b76 upstream.
[...]
> @@ -173,7 +175,18 @@ static void autofs4_notify_daemon(struct
>  	mutex_unlock(&sbi->wq_mutex);
>  
>  	if (autofs4_write(sbi, pipe, &pkt, pktsz))
> +	switch (ret = autofs4_write(sbi, pipe, &pkt, pktsz)) {

I'm pretty sure the if-statement was meant to be replaced by the
switch-statement here.  (This is wrong upstream, not an error in
backporting.)

Ben.

> +	case 0:
> +		break;
> +	case -ENOMEM:
> +	case -ERESTARTSYS:
> +		/* Just fail this one */
> +		autofs4_wait_release(sbi, wq->wait_queue_token, ret);
> +		break;
> +	default:
>  		autofs4_catatonic_mode(sbi);
> +		break;
> +	}
>  	fput(pipe);
>  }
>  

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.