[PATCH] kexec-tools: find sysfs smarter

Josef Bacik jbacik at fb.com
Wed Jun 1 13:26:38 PDT 2016


Some systems may not have /etc/mtab, so fall back to using /proc/mounts if we
fail to open /etc/mtab.  Also if a user does

mount -t sysfs none /sys

we won't find the sysfs directory.  We need to check mnt->mnt_type, not
mnt->mnt_fsname.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik at fb.com>
---
 kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
index c75adaa..c24abaa 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
@@ -425,10 +425,13 @@ char *find_mnt_by_fsname(char *fsname)
 	char *mntdir;
 
 	mtab = setmntent("/etc/mtab", "r");
-	if (!mtab)
-		return NULL;
+	if (!mtab) {
+		mtab = setmntent("/proc/mounts", "r");
+		if (!mtab)
+			return NULL;
+	}
 	for(mnt = getmntent(mtab); mnt; mnt = getmntent(mtab)) {
-		if (strcmp(mnt->mnt_fsname, fsname) == 0)
+		if (strcmp(mnt->mnt_type, fsname) == 0)
 			break;
 	}
 	mntdir = mnt ? strdup(mnt->mnt_dir) : NULL;
-- 
2.5.0




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