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NeilBrown ecc0c469f2 autofs: don't fail mount for transient error
Currently if the autofs kernel module gets an error when writing to the
pipe which links to the daemon, then it marks the whole moutpoint as
catatonic, and it will stop working.

It is possible that the error is transient.  This can happen if the
daemon is slow and more than 16 requests queue up.  If a subsequent
process tries to queue a request, and is then signalled, the write to
the pipe will return -ERESTARTSYS and autofs will take that as total
failure.

So change the code to assess -ERESTARTSYS and -ENOMEM as transient
failures which only abort the current request, not the whole mountpoint.

It isn't a crash or a data corruption, but having autofs mountpoints
suddenly stop working is rather inconvenient.

Ian said:

: And given the problems with a half dozen (or so) user space applications
: consuming large amounts of CPU under heavy mount and umount activity this
: could happen more easily than we expect.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y3norvgp.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
arch bug: define the "cut here" string in a single place 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
block block/blk-mq.c: use kmalloc_array_node() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
certs
crypto kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2017-11-15 18:21:04 -08:00
Documentation dynamic_debug documentation: minor fixes 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
drivers lkdtm: include WARN format string 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
firmware
fs autofs: don't fail mount for transient error 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
include lib/genalloc.c: make the avail variable an atomic_long_t 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
init init/version.c: include <linux/export.h> instead of <linux/module.h> 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
ipc
kernel kernel/umh.c: optimize 'proc_cap_handler()' 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
lib lib: test module for find_*_bit() functions 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
mm mm, compaction: remove unneeded pageblock_skip_persistent() checks 2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
net Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-15 19:42:40 -08:00
samples media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
scripts checkpatch: do not check missing blank line before builtin_*_driver 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
security Modules updates for v4.15 2017-11-15 13:46:33 -08:00
sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
tools tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c: clean up clang build warning 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
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Makefile RISC-V Port for Linux 4.15 v9 2017-11-15 10:49:15 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.