[CRIU] [PATCH 3/3] proc-parse: Drop deleted postfix from the mountpoint root

Andrew Vagin avagin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 02:29:51 PDT 2015


On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 05:44:52PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:37:59AM +0300, Andrew Vagin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:34:27AM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > > This address only a part of a problem with deleted mountpoint,
> > > so rather a fast fix to not block development, but warning
> > > issued to nag us to not forget resolve it before the release.
> > 
> > The result will be incorrect. Do we really want it? This issue can be
> > easy fixed in libcontainer which can mount /dev/null from a host file
> > system.
> 
> As I said it fixes a part of a problem and issues a warning.
> If docker can handle this without a patch, then sure, no need
> for it. But as far as I understand Saied said it helps him.

I am not so sure;). This patch is dangerous, because it mounts another
mount instead of a deleted one, so it can show some data which where
were unaccessiable before.

I really think that this must be fixed in libcontainer.
> 
> (sorry for delay in response, drowned in mails)


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