Re: [BUG] libmount misparses mountinfo on Linux v2.6.39-rc1

From: Karel Zak
Date: Tue Apr 05 2011 - 08:23:48 EST


On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:16:23PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:24:01 +0200, victor.vde@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > /proc/self/mountinfo on Linux v2.6.39-rc1 includes the UUID of ext4
> > and ext3 mounts, for example:
> >
> > 15 1 8:3 / / rw,noatime uuid:c645234d-9756-4d84-825e-6fe999252a34 - ext4 /dev/sda3 rw,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered
> >
> > It seems the hyphens in the uuid confuse the parser
> > mnt_parse_mountinfo_line in tab_parse.c of libmount in util-linux.
>
> shouldn't the parser look for " " followed by "-" followed by " " as the
> field seperator ?
>
> I am adding Miklos and Ram Pai to CC to check whether the kernel or the libmount
> should be fixed ?

The libmount (in util-linux git tree) should be fixed now. Thanks for
the report!

Karel

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