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authorTomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>2016-10-11 23:52:53 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-12 01:06:31 +0300
commitd873284103dacbe90ace2f3de20dff02fafcfef0 (patch)
treeb0b21d6876582f60da34a25566316654bafc7cf6 /Documentation
parent72063e01eda7e7562702bbf790380104bf704379 (diff)
downloadlinux-d873284103dacbe90ace2f3de20dff02fafcfef0.tar.xz
autofs: fix Documentation regarding devid on ioctl
The explanation on how ioctl handles devid seems incorrect. Userspace who calls this ioctl has no input regarding devid, and ioctl implementation retrieves devid via superblock. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160812024825.12352.13486.stgit@pluto.themaw.net Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
index aff22113a986..540d9a7e252d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
@@ -323,9 +323,8 @@ mount on the given path dentry.
The call requires an initialized struct autofs_dev_ioctl with the path
field set to the mount point in question and the size field adjusted
-appropriately as well as the arg1 field set to the device number of the
-containing autofs mount. Upon return the struct field arg1 contains the
-uid and arg2 the gid.
+appropriately. Upon return the struct field arg1 contains the uid and
+arg2 the gid.
When reconstructing an autofs mount tree with active mounts we need to
re-connect to mounts that may have used the original process uid and