automounter crashes with a segmentation fault on negative cache lookups when the system is under memory pressure in RHEL 5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Automount may occasionally crash when it is loaded with a lot of negative cache lookups. This is more commonly seen when the system does not have much free memory left.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • autofs prior to autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.156.el5

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