Bug 334171
| Summary: | check of rootfs is already mounted rw is insufficient | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Mark Hlawatschek <hlawatschek> | ||||
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | initscripts Maintenance Team <initscripts-maint-list> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 5.1 | CC: | grimme | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2008-0443 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-05-21 17:23:55 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Created attachment 291330 [details]
patch for this
Here's what's going in CVS.
I just tested the new rpms. The proposed patch and new rpms seem to fix the problem. Thank you very much. Mark An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0443.html |
Description of problem: During the bootprocess, the root filesystem will be remounted rw if it's not already. The check that us done here for this is insufficient. In /etc/rc.sysinit: 700 state=`LC_ALL=C awk '/ \/ / && ($3 !~ /rootfs/) { print $4 }' /proc/mounts` 701 [ "$state" != "rw" -a "$READONLY" != "yes" ] && \ 702 action $"Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: " mount -n -o remount,rw / state may be rw,option1,option2 here Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.45.17.EL-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount rootfs rw togehter with other options (e.g. noatime) 2. boot system 3. Actual results: rootfs will be remounted rw Expected results: rootfs should not be remounted rw as it already is mounted rw Additional info: