[LTP] [PATCH v4, 2/2] cgroup/cgroup_regression_test: Fix umount failure

[Leo Liang <ycliang@andestech.com>]

Hi, 
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 09:53:54PM +0800, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FYI this discussion is on v4, there is already v5 (marking it changes requested
> in patchwork) and obviously v6 will be needed. Leo, I suppose you'll implement
> everything mentioned here in v6.
> 

No problem! Thanks for all the advice!
Will prepare a v6 soon!


> > Hi!
> > > I had a first look at this patches and was curious, what the reasoning 
> > > behind the "/" is.
> +1 I should have ask myself as well :).
> 
> > > The comment you suggest is wrong. The / was introduced to prevent 
> > > unmounting some other mountpoint,
> > > where the device was cgroup.
> > > Imho the approach of adding a / to the end was wrong and intransparent. 
> > > I would rather use "./cgroup" or "$PWD/cgroup".
> 
> > Passing full path to the cgroup directory sound much safer to me
> > especially when the directory name is just 'cgroup', try it yourself:
> 
> > device=cgroup/; grep "${device%/}" /proc/mounts
> 
> > On my machine this yields 10 lines and 21 matches.
> 
> > > If possible, I'd actually change tst_umount, to always unmount the 
> > > mountpoint and not the device, i.e. if the given path is not an absolute 
> > > path, make it absolute (e.g. by prepending $PWD").
> > > This way the check if the mountpoint exist wouldn't be the fuzzy thing 
> > > it is right now.
> +1

> 
> > Strongly agree here.
> 
> > I would go even one step further and change the library so that it
> > rejects anything that does not start with '/'.
> +1
> 

Will include both points in v6 patch!

> Kind regards,
> Petr

Best regards,
Leo