vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag

That flag no longer makes sense, since we don't look up automount points
as eagerly any more.  Additionally, it turns out that the NO_AUTOMOUNT
handling was buggy to begin with: it would avoid automounting even for
cases where we really *needed* to do the automount handling, and could
return ENOENT for autofs entries that hadn't been instantiated yet.

With our new non-eager automount semantics, one discussion has been
about adding a AT_AUTOMOUNT flag to vfs_fstatat (and thus the
newfstatat() and fstatat64() system calls), but it's probably not worth
it: you can always force at least directory automounting by simply
adding the final '/' to the filename, which works for *all* of the stat
family system calls, old and new.

So AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (and thus LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) really were just a
result of our bad default behavior.

Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 09606fd83d57..0b3138de2a3b 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -721,12 +721,6 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
         if (!path->dentry->d_op || !path->dentry->d_op->d_automount)
                 return -EREMOTE;
 
-        /* We don't want to mount if someone supplied AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
-         * and this is the terminal part of the path.
-         */
-        if ((flags & LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) && !(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT))
-                return -EISDIR; /* we actually want to stop here */
-
         /* We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat -
          * unless they're stat'ing a directory and appended a '/' to
          * the name.