From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:32:41 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
X-Git-Tag: 1_6_0~45
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=38ec147a181cc2b5d160d98ee20bb9aacc5de9eb;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git

mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)
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diff --git a/util-linux/mount.c b/util-linux/mount.c
index b76c38ab1..030ea662a 100644
--- 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?