[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#620818: Bug#620818: Bug#620818: mount.cifs appends trailing slash to share name in kernel

[Luk Claes]

retitle 620818 mtab to proc symlink handled suboptimal for user mounts
notfound 620818 4.9
found 620818 2:4.9-1
tags 620818 +confirmed
thanks

On 04/04/2011 02:47 PM, Luk Claes wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 01:55 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Package: cifs-utils
>> Version: 4.9
> 
> That's not a version in Debian, I guess you mean 2:4.9-1? Can you give
> the output from 'apt-cache policy cifs-utils' so we can confirm?

Tagged accordingly.

>> Bug #586009 has essentially not been solved. Fixing mtab won't help when 
>> you run systems with /etc/mtab as a symlink to /proc/self/mounts.
> 
> Any reason why you open a new bug in that case?

Apparently it's fixed in general, but not in the case of a symlink.

>> # strace -fe mount -s 65536 -v mount -t cifs //localhost/homes /mnt -o user=root
>> [pid  2734] mount("//localhost/homes/", ".", "cifs", 0, "ip=::1,unc=\\\\localhost\\homes,,ver=1,user=root,pass=abc") = 0
>>
>> # tail -n1 /proc/self/mounts
>> //localhost/homes/ /mnt cifs rw,relatime,unc=\\localhost\homes,username=root,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001,posixpaths,serverino,acl,rsize=16384,wsize=57344,actimeo=1 0 0
> 
> This is an observation, though I don't see any mention of what problem
> it causes for you especially as you are being root when doing the mount.
> 
> If you think user unmounts are still not working, can you please add the
> appropriate fstab entry and show the commands you execute together with
> their output?

Tried myself and it's indeed a problem. I will contact upstream.

Cheers

Luk