tree 7364873c15017b4b33127d0d77d957c538861bc3
parent f55532a0c0b8bb6148f4e07853b876ef73bc69ca
author Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> 1457536687 -0600
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1460498513 -0700

debugfs: Make automount point inodes permanently empty

Starting with 4.1 the tracing subsystem has its own filesystem
which is automounted in the tracing subdirectory of debugfs.
Prior to this debugfs could be bind mounted in a cloned mount
namespace, but if tracefs has been mounted under debugfs this
now fails because there is a locked child mount. This creates
a regression for container software which bind mounts debugfs
to satisfy the assumption of some userspace software.

In other pseudo filesystems such as proc and sysfs we're already
creating mountpoints like this in such a way that no dirents can
be created in the directories, allowing them to be exceptions to
some MNT_LOCKED tests. In fact we're already do this for the
tracefs mountpoint in sysfs.

Do the same in debugfs_create_automount(), since the intention
here is clearly to create a mountpoint. This fixes the regression,
as locked child mounts on permanently empty directories do not
cause a bind mount to fail.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>