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Bug 499367

Summary:

mount.ecrytfs hangs when used with wrong/missing stdin

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Reporter:

Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>

Component:

ecryptfs-utils

Assignee:

Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>

Status:

CLOSED ERRATA

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BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>

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medium

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low

Version:

5.4

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mnowak, rvokal

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2009-09-02 09:57:15 UTC

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use default values with verbosity=0, repeat question 5 times at most (without verbosity=0)	none
fix eof handling	none

Description Michal Hlavinka 2009-05-06 11:43:41 UTC

Description of problem:
when mount is performed in cron or other way, where stdin is missing (or can't interact with stdout), mount hangs in endless loop.

When verbosity=0 is used (preventing mount helper's questions), it errors out where default values should be used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
allways

Steps to Reproduce:
1.mount -t ecryptfs  ~/testecfs/ ~/testecfs/ -o key=passphrase:passphrase_passwd=1234,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,verbosity=0 </dev/null
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Actual results:
a)with verbosity=0 : errors out: 'invalid value'
b)without verbosity=0: hangs

Expected results:
a)with verbosity=0 : default values are used (no questions)
b)without verbosity=0 : errors out with 'invalid value' (/dev/null is permanently giving wrong answers)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michal Hlavinka 2009-05-06 11:45:36 UTC

Created attachment 342634 [details]
use default values with verbosity=0, repeat question 5 times at most (without verbosity=0)

Comment 7 Michal Hlavinka 2009-05-29 09:28:57 UTC

Created attachment 345874 [details]
fix eof handling

both patches are required

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:57:15 UTC

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 therefore 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/RHSA-2009-1307.html