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SubjectRe: Patch for /proc/mounts problems on 2.2.x
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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