mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)

diff --git a/util-linux/mount.c b/util-linux/mount.c
index b76c38ab1d4e2a499b5a5d857a4af66b0af613d3..030ea662ac0dd1f170cae48c35b11836b5df4fb4 100644 (file)
--- a/util-linux/mount.c
+++ b/util-linux/mount.c
@@ -1453,8 +1453,10 @@ static int singlemount(struct mntent *mp, int ignore_busy)
 
        // Look at the file.  (Not found isn't a failure for remount, or for
        // a synthetic filesystem like proc or sysfs.)
+       // (We use stat, not lstat, in order to allow
+       // mount symlink_to_file_or_blkdev dir)
 
-       if (!lstat(mp->mnt_fsname, &st)
+       if (!stat(mp->mnt_fsname, &st)
         && !(vfsflags & (MS_REMOUNT | MS_BIND | MS_MOVE))
        ) {
                // Do we need to allocate a loopback device for it?