On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 08:30:58AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@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: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> ACK; I'll grab that one (in #work.misc - I don't believe it's #fixes fodder).
