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commit 29be9100aca2915fab54b5693309bc42956542e5 upstream. Don't cross a mountpoint that explicitly specifies a backup volume (target is <vol>.backup) when starting from a backup volume. It it not uncommon to mount a volume's backup directly in the volume itself. This can cause tools that are not paying attention to get into a loop mounting the volume onto itself as they attempt to traverse the tree, leading to a variety of problems. This doesn't prevent the general case of loops in a sequence of mountpoints, but addresses a common special case in the same way as other afs clients. Reported-by: Jan Henrik Sylvester <jan.henrik.sylvester@uni-hamburg.de> Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2024-May/008454.html Reported-by: Markus Suvanto <markus.suvanto@gmail.com> Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2024-February/008074.html Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/768760.1716567475@warthog.procyon.org.uk Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.