autofs: revert "autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk"

While commit 092a53452bb7 ("autofs: take more care to not update
last_used on path walk") helped (partially) resolve a problem where
automounts were not expiring due to aggressive accesses from user space
it has a side effect for very large environments.

This change helps with the expire problem by making the expire more
aggressive but, for very large environments, that means more mount
requests from clients.  When there are a lot of clients that can mean
fairly significant server load increases.

It turns out I put the last_used in this position to solve this very
problem and failed to update my own thinking of the autofs expire
policy.  So the patch being reverted introduces a regression which
should be fixed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 092a53452b ("autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk")
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>	[4.11+]
Cc: Colin Walters <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Ondrej Holy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/root.c b/fs/autofs4/root.c
index d79ced9258614010128dd8f1ed6a0cff2b525f21..82e8f6edfb48d0e8670dd58e3fbdcfb4b5ceb85d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/autofs4/root.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/root.c
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ static int autofs4_mount_wait(const struct path *path, bool rcu_walk)
                pr_debug("waiting for mount name=%pd\n", path->dentry);
                status = autofs4_wait(sbi, path, NFY_MOUNT);
                pr_debug("mount wait done status=%d\n", status);
-               ino->last_used = jiffies;
        }
+       ino->last_used = jiffies;
        return status;
 }
 
@@ -321,21 +321,16 @@ static struct dentry *autofs4_mountpoint_changed(struct path *path)
         */
        if (autofs_type_indirect(sbi->type) && d_unhashed(dentry)) {
                struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent;
+               struct autofs_info *ino;
                struct dentry *new;
 
                new = d_lookup(parent, &dentry->d_name);
                if (!new)
                        return NULL;
-               if (new == dentry)
-                       dput(new);
-               else {
-                       struct autofs_info *ino;
-
-                       ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(new);
-                       ino->last_used = jiffies;
-                       dput(path->dentry);
-                       path->dentry = new;
-               }
+               ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(new);
+               ino->last_used = jiffies;
+               dput(path->dentry);
+               path->dentry = new;
        }
        return path->dentry;
 }