[PATCH 29/39] convert autofs

Al Viro viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk
Sat Sep 20 17:47:48 AEST 2025


creation/removal is via normal VFS paths; make ->mkdir() and ->symlink()
use d_make_persistent(); ->rmdir() and ->unlink() - d_make_discardable()
instead of dput() and that's it.

d_make_persistent() works for unhashed just fine...

Note that only persistent dentries are ever hashed there; unusual absense
of ->d_delete() in dentry_operations is due to that - anything that has
refcount reach 0 will be unhashed there, so it won't get to checking
->d_delete anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/autofs/inode.c |  2 +-
 fs/autofs/root.c  | 10 ++++------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/autofs/inode.c b/fs/autofs/inode.c
index f5c16ffba013..eb86f893efbb 100644
--- a/fs/autofs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/autofs/inode.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ void autofs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
 	}
 
 	pr_debug("shutting down\n");
-	kill_litter_super(sb);
+	kill_anon_super(sb);
 	if (sbi)
 		kfree_rcu(sbi, rcu);
 }
diff --git a/fs/autofs/root.c b/fs/autofs/root.c
index 39794633d484..fb6c8215456c 100644
--- a/fs/autofs/root.c
+++ b/fs/autofs/root.c
@@ -594,9 +594,8 @@ static int autofs_dir_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 	}
 	inode->i_private = cp;
 	inode->i_size = size;
-	d_add(dentry, inode);
 
-	dget(dentry);
+	d_make_persistent(dentry, inode);
 	p_ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry->d_parent);
 	p_ino->count++;
 
@@ -627,7 +626,7 @@ static int autofs_dir_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	p_ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry->d_parent);
 	p_ino->count--;
-	dput(dentry);
+	d_make_discardable(dentry);
 
 	d_inode(dentry)->i_size = 0;
 	clear_nlink(d_inode(dentry));
@@ -709,7 +708,7 @@ static int autofs_dir_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	p_ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry->d_parent);
 	p_ino->count--;
-	dput(dentry);
+	d_make_discardable(dentry);
 	d_inode(dentry)->i_size = 0;
 	clear_nlink(d_inode(dentry));
 
@@ -739,12 +738,11 @@ static struct dentry *autofs_dir_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 	inode = autofs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, S_IFDIR | mode);
 	if (!inode)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	d_add(dentry, inode);
 
 	if (sbi->version < 5)
 		autofs_set_leaf_automount_flags(dentry);
 
-	dget(dentry);
+	d_make_persistent(dentry, inode);
 	p_ino = autofs_dentry_ino(dentry->d_parent);
 	p_ino->count++;
 	inc_nlink(dir);
-- 
2.47.3



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