Re: mountd: Possible bug in next_mnt()

[Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>]

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> On 3/11/23 11:52 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
>>>> next_mnt() finds submounts below a given path p.
>>>> While investigating into an issue in my crossmount patches for nfs-utils I
>>>> noticed
>>>> that it does not work when fsid=root, rootdir=/some/path/ and then "/" is being
>>>> exported.
>>>> In this case next_mnt() is asked to find submounts of "/" but returns none.
>>> I'm not clear as what you are saying... "rootdir=/some/path/" is not an
>>> export option.
>> 
>> Sorry for being imprecise.
>> rootdir= is an nfs.conf exports option.Point. But I still need the patch in the
>> correct
> format with the Signed-off-by...

Well, the goal of my mail was not sending a ready-to-apply patch.
It was a question. To me next_mnt() looks wrong but I'm not sure whether
the current handling of "/" is desired for some special case I'm not aware of.

I'll happily send a patch after we agree that next_mnt() is wrong.

Thanks,
//richard