From: Ian Kent During testing I've found that the mount pending flag can be left set at exit from autofs4_lookup after a failed mount request. This shouldn't be allowed to happen and causes incorrect error returns. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/autofs4/root.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-pending-flag-not-cleared-on-mount-fail fs/autofs4/root.c --- a/fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-pending-flag-not-cleared-on-mount-fail +++ a/fs/autofs4/root.c @@ -281,9 +281,6 @@ static int try_to_fill_dentry(struct den DPRINTK("mount done status=%d", status); - if (status && dentry->d_inode) - return status; /* Try to get the kernel to invalidate this dentry */ - /* Turn this into a real negative dentry? */ if (status == -ENOENT) { spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); @@ -540,6 +537,9 @@ static struct dentry *autofs4_lookup(str return ERR_PTR(-ERESTARTNOINTR); } } + spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); + dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_AUTOFS_PENDING; + spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); } /* _