Re: [patch 2/8] vfs: fix sys_getcwd for detached mounts

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat May 31 2008 - 04:21:11 EST


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:32:47PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>
> Currently getcwd(2) on a detached mount will give a garbled result:
>
> > mkdir /mnt/foo
> > mount --bind /etc /mnt/foo
> > cd /mnt/foo/skel
> > /bin/pwd
> /mnt/foo/skel
> > umount -l /mnt/foo
> > /bin/pwd
> etcskel
>
> After the patch it will give a much saner "/skel" result.
>
> Thanks to John Johansen for pointing out this bug.

I'm not sure just cuttinig of the prefix is perfect, but the previous
behvaiour is obviously completely wrong, and the change is simple
enough. So okay from me.
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