Bug 4781 - umount.cifs can't clean up /etc/mtab if trailing slashes used
Summary: umount.cifs can't clean up /etc/mtab if trailing slashes used
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: CifsVFS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: user space tools (show other bugs)
Version: 2.6
Hardware: All Linux
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Steve French
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Reported: 2007-07-12 01:47 UTC by Steve Langasek
Modified: 2007-11-16 15:33 UTC (History)
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trim trailing slashes to canonicalize mountpoint names on unmount (559 bytes, patch)
2007-07-12 01:49 UTC, Steve Langasek
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Description Steve Langasek 2007-07-12 01:47:00 UTC
If umount.cifs is called by a user to unmount a user-mounted filesystem, the /etc/mtab entry will not be cleaned up if the mount point is specified on the commandline with a trailing slash.

The reason for this is that mount points are canonicalized within /etc/mtab with no trailing slash, but umount.cifs compares the mountpoint values in /etc/mtab to the commandline option without trimming trailing slashes.

Patch to follow.
Comment 1 Steve Langasek 2007-07-12 01:49:30 UTC
Created attachment 2812 [details]
trim trailing slashes to canonicalize mountpoint names on unmount

Simple patch to canonicalize any mountpoint names passed to umount.cifs by removing trailing slashes