Bug 164433

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #150116 +++

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Description of problem:
This may be a duplicate of 134399.  That bug was unclear about whether
the dir was being removed before or after it was unmounted.

On a network of machines I have /home/<dirs> being automounted with
the following yp auto.master and auto.home maps (respectively):

# ypcat -k auto.master
/home yp:auto.home
/misc yp:auto.misc

# ypcat -k auto.home
* -rw,soft,intr srv0:/export/home/&

Boy was I surprised to find my home directory (/home/brian) completely
empty at some point yesterday and get emptied of any new files I put
in it every 60 seconds.

Through a thorough investigation I came to discover that it was
automount on a number (but far from all) of the hosts that was
emptying my home directory.

From looking at the code it was obvious that umount_multi() that was
doing this "cleaning out" in this block of code:

    if (left == 0) {
        if ((!ap.ghost) ||
            (ap.state == ST_SHUTDOWN_PENDING ||
             ap.state == ST_SHUTDOWN))
            rm_unwanted(path, incl, 1);
        else if (ap.ghost && (ap.type == LKP_INDIRECT))
            rm_unwanted(path, 0, 1);
    } 

"left" is given a value just prior to that block of code depending on
whether the filesystem being mounted was found in the /etc/mtab file
and if it was successful in unmounting the shared filesystem if it was
found in the /etc/mtab file.

When i looked at the mount table on one of the hosts doing the
cleaning it was clear that /home/brian was indeed still mounted from
the server.  So either the block of code that was enumerating the the
/etc/mtab file or the block of code trying to do the unmount has a
defect in it that made automount believe that the filesystem was
either not mounted or was successfully unmounted.

This indeed is a very evil chunk of code if it goes wrong!

I have currently built and installed the -99 release of the autofs
package from rawhide along with a safety plug that does not actually
remove any found files in the tree.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
autofs-4.1.3-28

How reproducible:
Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
Unknown as of yet.

Additional info: