From: Ian Kent The check for an empty directory in the autofs4_follow_link method fails occassionally due to old dentrys. We had the same problem autofs4_revalidate ages ago. I thought we wouldn't need this in autofs4_follow_link, silly me. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/autofs4/root.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-autofs4_follow_link-false-negative-fix fs/autofs4/root.c --- a/fs/autofs4/root.c~autofs4-autofs4_follow_link-false-negative-fix +++ a/fs/autofs4/root.c @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static void *autofs4_follow_link(struct * don't try to mount it again. */ spin_lock(&dcache_lock); - if (!d_mountpoint(dentry) && list_empty(&dentry->d_subdirs)) { + if (!d_mountpoint(dentry) && __simple_empty(dentry)) { spin_unlock(&dcache_lock); status = try_to_fill_dentry(dentry, 0); _