From: Ian Kent <ikent@xxxxxxxxxx> When a filesystem is mounted with a name that starts with a #: # mount '#name' /mnt/bad -t tmpfs this will cause the entry to look like this (leading space added so that git does not strip it out): #name /mnt/bad tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,inode64 0 0 This breaks getmntent and any code that aims to parse fstab as well as /proc/mounts with the same logic since they need to strip leading spaces or skip over comment lines, due to which they report incorrect output or skip over the line respectively. Solve this by translating the hash character into its octal encoding equivalent so that applications can decode the name correctly. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <ikent@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc_namespace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/proc_namespace.c b/fs/proc_namespace.c index 392ef5162655..835eb71a0169 100644 --- a/fs/proc_namespace.c +++ b/fs/proc_namespace.c @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static void show_mnt_opts(struct seq_file *m, struct vfsmount *mnt) static inline void mangle(struct seq_file *m, const char *s) { - seq_escape(m, s, " \t\n\\"); + seq_escape(m, s, " \t\n\\#"); } static void show_type(struct seq_file *m, struct super_block *sb)