fix the braino in "namei: massage lookup_slow() to be usable by lookup_one_len_unlock...

We should try to trigger automount *before* bailing out on negative dentry.

Reported-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 794f81dce76606ec025e3dcf1f182a175eaa0e82..1d9ca2d5dff68ee184bf5dbe6d0d417f1b63f245 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1740,15 +1740,17 @@ static int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, int flags)
                                          nd->flags);
                if (IS_ERR(path.dentry))
                        return PTR_ERR(path.dentry);
-               if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) {
-                       dput(path.dentry);
-                       return -ENOENT;
-               }
+
                path.mnt = nd->path.mnt;
                err = follow_managed(&path, nd);
                if (unlikely(err < 0))
                        return err;
 
+               if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) {
+                       path_to_nameidata(&path, nd);
+                       return -ENOENT;
+               }
+
                seq = 0;        /* we are already out of RCU mode */
                inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry);
        }