Re: [PATCH] mount: don't canonicalize the source of a pseudofs

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On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 06:47:24PM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote:
> In line with previous patches, the source of a pseudofs is strictly
> semantic; do not attempt to resolve it to a filesystem path.
> 
> As a side effect of this, nspec needs to be initialized to NULL since
> it may not be assigned null by spec_to_devname when the FS is deemed
> a pseudofs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This wasn't as evil as I thought, after all...
> 
>  mount/mount.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mount/mount.c b/mount/mount.c
> index 9b444c4..49d49f6 100644
> --- a/mount/mount.c
> +++ b/mount/mount.c
> @@ -2016,7 +2016,7 @@ is_existing_file (const char *s) {
>  static int
>  mount_one (const char *spec, const char *node, const char *types,
>  	   const char *fstabopts, char *cmdlineopts, int freq, int pass) {
> -	const char *nspec;
> +	const char *nspec = NULL;
>  	char *opts;
>  
>  	/* Substitute values in opts, if required */
> @@ -2046,7 +2046,8 @@ mount_one (const char *spec, const char *node, const char *types,
>  			      strncmp(types, "nfs", 3) &&
>  			      strncmp(types, "cifs", 4) &&
>  			      strncmp(types, "smbfs", 5))) {
> -		nspec = spec_to_devname(spec);
> +		if (!is_pseudo_fs(types))
> +			nspec = spec_to_devname(spec);

 Exactly this is implemented in spec_to_devname(), it does not
 canonicalize pseudo filesystems.

>  		if (nspec)
>  			spec = nspec;
>  	}
> -- 
> 1.7.8.1
> 
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