Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] [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.

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From: NeilBrown neilb@suse.com

commit ecc0c469f27765ed1e2b967be0aa17cee1a60b76 upstream.

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@@ -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);  }