Re: Regression in Autofs, 2.6.15-git

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On Saturday 14 January 2006 5:11 pm, P. Christeas wrote:
> Doesn't that mean that mnt==0x0004 ? Clearly wrong. I can also see from
> Christian's patch that mnt wasn't previously used, so it makes perfect
> sense for that commit to introduce the oops.
>
> I guess the problem lies in autofs4_revalidate (fs/autofs4/root.c:420), the
> nd->mnt value..
>
> I will add a silly validator (mnt>0xff) instead of (mnt) and see..
Confirmed: ((u32)mnt>0xff) discards the invalid 'mnt' value and the oops 
disappears.
That is, the autofs4 code needs some debugging :( .
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