umount of unreachable NFS without -f [maybe PATCH]

Stanislav Brabec
2014-09-02T19:09:40Z

I just analyzed causes of hang while calling umount without -f on an
unreachable NFS.

The first hang happens on in lookup_umount_fs():

stat(tgt, &st) == 0 && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)

I don't exactly know, what its removal causes, but I tried it.

I entered into next hang in mnt_resolve_path() inside has_utab_entry().
We cannot prevent this hang in all cases, but preventing it in a
standard situation is pretty straightforward: Try to match provided
target name before trying to canonicalize.

Now my umount without -f works well at least in the case, when the mount
point is recorded in the utab.

If it is not recorded in utab, it still hangs later in
lookup_umount_fs() on:

if (statfs(tgt, &vfs) == 0)

Well, we can prevent even this hang, but it would be at cost of parsing
mtab. I read your git comments and I see, that the whole purpose of the
code is preventing of parsing of the generated mtab/mountinfo.

Would be parsing of fstab a safe way without paying this cost?

Here is my patch, which prevented at least part of these hangs. What do
you think about it?

Index: util-linux-2.25/libmount/src/context_umount.c
===================================================================
--- util-linux-2.25.orig/libmount/src/context_umount.c
+++ util-linux-2.25/libmount/src/context_umount.c
@@ -216,6 +255,14 @@ static int has_utab_entry(struct libmnt_

/* paths in utab are canonicalized */
cache = mnt_context_get_cache(cxt);
+
+ /* first search for target as it is - mnt_resolve_path() can fail on unreachable NFS */
+ mnt_reset_iter(&itr, MNT_ITER_BACKWARD);
+
+ while (mnt_table_next_fs(cxt->utab, &itr, &fs) == 0) {
+ if (mnt_fs_streq_target(fs, target))
+ return 1;
+ }
cn = mnt_resolve_path(target, cache);
mnt_reset_iter(&itr, MNT_ITER_BACKWARD);

@@ -232,7 +279,6 @@ static int has_utab_entry(struct libmnt_
static int lookup_umount_fs(struct libmnt_context *cxt)
{
const char *tgt;
- struct stat st;
struct libmnt_fs *fs = NULL;
int rc = 0;

@@ -262,7 +308,6 @@ static int lookup_umount_fs(struct libmn
&& !mnt_context_mtab_writable(cxt)
&& !mnt_context_is_force(cxt)
&& !mnt_context_is_lazy(cxt)
- && stat(tgt, &st) == 0 && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)
&& !has_utab_entry(cxt, tgt)) {

const char *type = mnt_fs_get_fstype(cxt->fs);

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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