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From: Yecheng Fu <cofyc.jackson@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfs: use "none" if mount source is empty string
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 13:18:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180515051758.GA10231@jupiter.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180419113256.GC5556@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 04:32:56AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:47:21AM +0800, Yecheng Fu wrote:
> > `libmount` from util-linux and many softwares in userspace (e.g.
> > kubelet) did not expect empty string as mount source:
> > 
> > ```
> > $ mount -t tmpfs "" /mnt/tmpfs
> > $ findmnt /mnt/tmpfs
> > findmnt: /proc/self/mountinfo: parse error at line 51
> > $ cat /proc/self/mountinfo | grep -P '\/mnt\/tmpfs'
> > 74 25 0:59 / /mnt/tmpfs rw,relatime shared:38 - tmpfs  rw
> > $ cat /proc/self/mounts | grep -P '\/mnt\/tmpfs'
> >  /mnt/tmpfs tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > ```
> > 
> > `source` field in mounts/mountinfo is empty, which breaks a lot of
> > mounts/mountinfo parsers.
> > 
> > This fixes issues in parsing when user uses empty string as mount
> > source.
> > 
> > Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Yecheng Fu <cofyc.jackson@gmail.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

hi, I'm a newbie here. Will this be merged or is there still something I
need to do?

I had submitted a patch to [util-linux](https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/619). Karel prefer kernel side bugfix than rewrite all the sscanf() stuff and I agree. Kernel side bugfix also fixes all parsers too.

-- 
Yecheng Fu

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-19  3:47 [PATCH v2] vfs: use "none" if mount source is empty string Yecheng Fu
2018-04-19 11:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-15  5:18   ` Yecheng Fu [this message]
2018-07-12  2:29     ` Yecheng Fu
2018-07-12  8:43       ` Karel Zak

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