On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 07:39:09PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
As each option string fragment is always prepended with a comma it would happen that the whole string always starts with a comma. This could be interpreted by filesystem drivers as an empty option and may produce errors.
For example the NTFS driver from ntfs.ko behaves like this and fails when mounted via the new API.
Link: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues/2298 Fixes: 3e1aeb00e6d1 ("vfs: Implement a filesystem superblock creation/configuration context") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh linux@weissschuh.net
Applied a fixed up version of v1 to
tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git branch: vfs.misc
[1/1] fs: avoid empty option when generating legacy mount string https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/36851649d3f6
yesterday.