autofs multi-map regression

From	Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	autofs multi-map regression
Date	2017-06-16 12:30 +0200
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After a recent upgrade of a Ubuntu xenial machine, a particular
autofs multi-map mount setup stopped working. A simplified example is:

::::::::::::::
auto.master
::::::::::::::
/net		/etc/auto.net
::::::::::::::
auto.net
::::::::::::::
localhost / :/ /loc :/loc

Accessing /net/localhost/loc should trigger two nested bind mounts on
/net/localhost and /net/localhost/loc, but with the new kernel, it fails
with ELOOP:

$ ls /net/localhost/loc
ls: cannot open directory '/net/localhost/loc': Too many levels of symbolic links

The problem is related to the upgrade of the Ubuntu xenial kernel from
4.4.0-38.57 to 4.4.0-78.99. I bisected the regression to commit
731ac92843877f3633325203abc942193c1e9001, which is a Ubuntu backport
of this upstream kernel commit:

commit 1064f874abc0d05eeed8993815f584d847b72486
Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 20 18:28:35 2017 +1300

    mnt: Tuck mounts under others instead of creating shadow/side mounts.

-- 
Dick

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autofs multi-map regression Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net> - 2017-06-16 12:30 +0200
  Re: autofs multi-map regression ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-06-16 19:20 +0200
    Re: autofs multi-map regression Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net> - 2017-06-16 22:50 +0200
      Re: autofs multi-map regression ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-06-16 23:20 +0200
  Re: autofs multi-map regression ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-06-16 23:10 +0200
    Re: autofs multi-map regression Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net> - 2017-06-16 23:50 +0200

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