Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:48:50 +0200 | From | Andreas Haumer <> | Subject | Re: Patch for /proc/mounts problems on 2.2.x |
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Hi!
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Christian Czezatke wrote: > > Unfortunately, I had to discover that /proc/mounts does not show all the > > mounting options (usrquota, grpquota). > > These options are ignored. linux/fs/ext2/super.c from 2.2.18-pre17: > But there are _userspace_ tools which check for these options in /etc/mtab (like "quota"), which won't work if you symlink /proc/mounts!
[...] > > > -- Furthermore, the max. size of > > /proc/mounts is limited to one page. Even worse, the current > > implementation in Linux 2.2.17 and 2.2.18preX does not perform proper > > bounds checking. (I've successfully triggered off an OOPS by exploiting > > this on a box running Linux 2.2.17). > > Don't mount so many filesystems, or don't use so many no-op options :) > Well, I already can imagine the next bugtrack message... :-( (Just think of a network of auto-mounted NFS servers...!)
Did you actually _read_ our web-page dealing with this topic?
- andreas
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