netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] lib: ignore invalid mounts in cg_init

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Message-ID: <20201011230357.198aaa5e@hermes.local>
Date:   Sun, 11 Oct 2020 23:03:57 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:     sharpd@...dia.com, dsahern@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] lib: ignore invalid mounts in cg_init_map

On Thu,  8 Oct 2020 20:59:27 +0300
Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@...dex-team.ru> wrote:

> In case of bad entries in /proc/mounts just skip cgroup cache initialization.
> Cgroups in output will be shown as "unreachable:cgroup_id".
> 
> Fixes: d5e6ee0dac64 ("ss: introduce cgroup2 cache and helper functions")
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@...dex-team.ru>
> Reported-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@...dia.com>

Applied with one suggestion.
This code has no comments so it is not obvious exactly what it is doing.
Some explanations would help the next person.