Here's another try at this.

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:18:15 +0800
> Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > I didn't get any adverse (or other feedback) for this patch after posting
> > an RFC to LKML so here it is.
> > 
> > For a long time now I have had a problem with not being able to return a 
> > lookup failure on an existsing directory. In autofs this corresponds to a 
> > mount failure on a autofs managed mount entry that is browsable (and so 
> > the mount point directory exists).
> > 
> > While this problem has been present for a long time I've avoided resolving 
> > it because it was not very visible. But now that autofs v5 has "mount and 
> > expire on demand" of nested multiple mounts, such as is found when 
> > mounting an export list from a server, solving the problem cannot be 
> > avoided any longer.
> > 
> > I've tried very hard to find a way to do this entirely within the 
> > autofs4 module but have not been able to find a satisfactory way to 
> > achieve it.
> > 
> > So, I need to propose a change to the VFS.
> > 

snip ...

> 
> Also, did you consider broadening the ->d_revalidate() semantics?  It
> appears that all implementations return 0 or 1.  You could teach the VFS to
> also recognise and act upon a -ve return value, and do this trickery within
> the autofs d_revalidate(), perhaps?
> 

Yep and I've now done this.
I think this is in fact the only way to do it.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

--

--- linux-2.6.17-mm1/include/linux/dcache.h.dcache-revalidate-return-fail       
2006-06-22 11:51:18.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.17-mm1/include/linux/dcache.h     2006-06-22 11:51:38.000000000 
+0800
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ d_iput:             no              no              no      
 yes
 #define DCACHE_UNHASHED                0x0010  
 
 #define DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED  0x0020 /* Parent inode is watched */
-#define DCACHE_REVAL_FORCE_FAIL 0x0040 /* Force revalidate fail on valid 
dentry */
 
 extern spinlock_t dcache_lock;
 
--- linux-2.6.17-mm1/fs/autofs4/root.c.dcache-revalidate-return-fail    
2006-06-22 11:54:24.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.17-mm1/fs/autofs4/root.c  2006-06-22 22:50:32.000000000 +0800
@@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ static int autofs4_dir_open(struct inode
                nd.flags = LOOKUP_DIRECTORY;
                ret = (dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)(dentry, &nd);
 
-               if (!ret) {
+               if (ret <= 0) {
+                       if (ret < 0)
+                               status = ret;
                        dcache_dir_close(inode, file);
                        goto out;
                }
@@ -400,13 +402,23 @@ static int autofs4_revalidate(struct den
        struct autofs_sb_info *sbi = autofs4_sbi(dir->i_sb);
        int oz_mode = autofs4_oz_mode(sbi);
        int flags = nd ? nd->flags : 0;
-       int status = 0;
+       int status = 1;
 
        /* Pending dentry */
        if (autofs4_ispending(dentry)) {
-               if (!oz_mode)
-                       status = try_to_fill_dentry(dentry, flags);
-               return !status;
+               /* The daemon never causes a mount to trigger */
+               if (oz_mode)
+                       return 1;
+
+               /*
+                * A zero status is success otherwise we have a
+                * negative error code.
+                */
+               status = try_to_fill_dentry(dentry, flags);
+               if (status == 0)
+                               return 1;
+
+               return status;
        }
 
        /* Negative dentry.. invalidate if "old" */
@@ -421,16 +433,19 @@ static int autofs4_revalidate(struct den
                DPRINTK("dentry=%p %.*s, emptydir",
                         dentry, dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);
                spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
-               if (!oz_mode) {
-                       status = try_to_fill_dentry(dentry, flags);
-                       if (status) {
-                               spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-                               dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_REVAL_FORCE_FAIL;
-                               spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-                               return 0;
-                       }
-               }
-               return !status;
+               /* The daemon never causes a mount to trigger */
+               if (oz_mode)
+                       return 1;
+
+               /*
+                * A zero status is success otherwise we have a
+                * negative error code.
+                */
+               status = try_to_fill_dentry(dentry, flags);
+               if (status == 0)
+                       return 1;
+
+               return status;
        }
        spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 
--- linux-2.6.17-mm1/fs/namei.c.dcache-revalidate-return-fail   2006-06-22 
11:50:13.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.17-mm1/fs/namei.c 2006-06-22 13:01:02.000000000 +0800
@@ -365,6 +365,29 @@ void release_open_intent(struct nameidat
                fput(nd->intent.open.file);
 }
 
+static __always_inline struct dentry *do_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, 
struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+       int status = dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(dentry, nd);
+       if (unlikely(status <= 0)) {
+               /*
+                * The dentry failed validation.
+                * If d_revalidate returned 0 attempt to invalidate
+                * the dentry otherwise d_revalidate is asking us
+                * to return a fail status.
+                */
+               if (!status) {
+                       if (!d_invalidate(dentry)) {
+                               dput(dentry);
+                               dentry = NULL;
+                       }
+               } else {
+                       dput(dentry);
+                       dentry = ERR_PTR(status);
+               }
+       }
+       return dentry;
+}
+
 /*
  * Internal lookup() using the new generic dcache.
  * SMP-safe
@@ -379,27 +402,9 @@ static struct dentry * cached_lookup(str
        if (!dentry)
                dentry = d_lookup(parent, name);
 
-       if (dentry && dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate) {
-               if (!dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(dentry, nd)) {
-                       if (!d_invalidate(dentry)) {
-                               dput(dentry);
-                               return NULL;
-                       }
-                       /*
-                        * As well as the normal validation, check if we need
-                        * to force a fail on a valid dentry (autofs4 browsable
-                        * mounts).
-                        */
-                       spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-                       if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_REVAL_FORCE_FAIL) {
-                               dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_REVAL_FORCE_FAIL;
-                               spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-                               dput(dentry);
-                               return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-                       }
-                       spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-               }
-       }
+       if (dentry && dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)
+               dentry = do_revalidate(dentry, nd);
+
        return dentry;
 }
 
@@ -492,25 +497,9 @@ static struct dentry * real_lookup(struc
         */
        mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
        if (result->d_op && result->d_op->d_revalidate) {
-               if (!result->d_op->d_revalidate(result, nd)) {
-                       if (!d_invalidate(result)) {
-                               dput(result);
-                               return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-                       }
-                       /*
-                       * d_revalidate failed but the dentry is still valid so
-                       * check if we need to force a fail on the dentry 
(autofs4
-                       * browsable mounts).
-                       */
-                       spin_lock(&result->d_lock);
-                       if (result->d_flags & DCACHE_REVAL_FORCE_FAIL) {
-                               result->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_REVAL_FORCE_FAIL;
-                               spin_unlock(&result->d_lock);
-                               dput(result);
-                               return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-                       }
-                       spin_unlock(&result->d_lock);
-               }
+               result = do_revalidate(result, nd);
+               if (!result)
+                       result = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
        }
        return result;
 }
@@ -790,25 +779,12 @@ need_lookup:
        goto done;
 
 need_revalidate:
-       if (dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(dentry, nd))
-               goto done;
-       if (d_invalidate(dentry)) {
-               /*
-                * d_revalidate failed but the dentry is still valid so check
-                * if we need to return a fail (autofs4 browsable mounts).
-                */
-               spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-               if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_REVAL_FORCE_FAIL) {
-                       dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_REVAL_FORCE_FAIL;
-                       spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-                       dput(dentry);
-                       return -ENOENT;
-               }
-               spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-               goto done;
-       }
-       dput(dentry);
-       goto need_lookup;
+       dentry = do_revalidate(dentry, nd);
+       if (!dentry)
+               goto need_lookup;
+       if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+               goto fail;
+       goto done;
 
 fail:
        return PTR_ERR(dentry);

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