UML mount failure with Linux 6.11

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Karel,

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:56 PM Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 02:50:38PM GMT, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2024-11-25 at 18:43 +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > The long-term solution would be to clean up hostfs and use named
> > > variables, such as "mount -t hostfs none -o 'path="/home/hostfs"'.
> >
> > That's what Hongbo's commit *did*, afaict, but it is a regression.
> >
> > Now most of the regression is that with fsconfig() call it was no longer
> > possible to specify a bare folder, and then we got discussing what
> > happens if the folder name actually contains a comma...
> >
> > But this is still a regression, so we need to figure out what to do
> > short term?
>
> I will add support for quotes for unnamed options, so that
> "/home/hostfs,dir" will be treated as a single option for libmount.
>
> I am unsure how to resolve this issue without using quotes, as we need
> a method to distinguish between a path with a comma and other options.

Escape the comma using a backslash?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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