mount: get most recently mounted fs from /etc/mtab.
I spent most of the day tracking down this subtle remount bug. I
think this is the correct solution but I'd appreciate some
double-checking. I suspect this bug will munge the mount options
whenever you remount a file system mounted on the same mountpoint as
another file system, using the mountpoint as the handle.
-VAL
commit
c010b3a0783430e2b94f3b3dc0929ae299e383eb
Author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Aug 3 16:32:52 2010 -0700
mount: get most recently mounted fs from /etc/mtab.
In mount, when using /etc/mtab to lookup a mount entry, get the most
recently mounted entry instead of the first mounted entry. You want
to manipulate the most recent mount, not a covered mount. See comment
to umount_one_bw().
This bug has been util-linux-ng since the first git checkin. It
finally showed up on my system with the change to stop using
SETLOOP_AUTOCLEAR if /etc/mtab is writable (commit
af092544). If you
do a remount of a file system mounted on the same dir as another file
system, it will take the options from the first mount and write them
out to /etc/mtab as the options to the second mount - including, in
the case of a loop device, loop=/dev/loop0. Then when you umount the
second mount, it grabs the line from /etc/mtab and tries to tear down
the loop device, which complains because it is still in use by the
first mount.
Reproducible test case (on a system with writable /etc/mtab):
mount -o loop,ro /tmp/ro /mnt
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt
mount -o remount,ro /mnt
cat /etc/mtab | tail -2
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>