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

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Message-Id: <E1Q5ZzI-0001M4-0j@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:45:48 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	victor.vde@...il.com, util-linux@...r.kernel.org,
	miklos@...redi.hu, linuxram@...ibm.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	victor.vde@...il.com, ejmarkow@...oo.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] libmount misparses mountinfo on Linux v2.6.39-rc1

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:24:01 +0200, victor.vde@...il.com 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 ?

I think libmount should be fixed, though there is always the question
of backward compatibility.

However I don't see how the kernel could be fixed, given that libmount
doesn't seem to parse escape sequences (e.g. "\040" for space), which
it also should.

Karel?

Thanks,
Miklos
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