Re: [PATCH 2/2] autofs: dont trigger mount if it cant succeed

Al Viro <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:16:35 +0000

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.autofs,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID	<20251111101635.GV2441659@ZenIV>

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 06:13:19PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> Anyway, for the moment, I think your saying just taking an ns_common
> reference
> 
> will be problematic as well.

If it is persistent - definitely.  We'd get a massive leak, since
namespace is torn apart when the refcount drops to zero.