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mounts: track mount state and provenance explicitly - #1034
Address the second set of follow-up fixes for issues opened during the review & discussion for #1007. This establishes explicit provenance and state tracking for mounts managed by snapm via files written to a new runtime directory at /run/snapm/mount-state. Each file containes a JSON object describing the mount root, named for the mount point as encoded by systemd-escape --path.
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Walkthrough
Snapshot and manager mount checks now use device numbers from /proc/self/mountinfo. Snapshot-set mount operations record provenance and use those records for discovery, reporting, and unmounting. Mounts receive a UUID marker option. Runtime setup creates the mount-state directory.
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Snapshot-set mount provenance
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Summary
Device-number mount lookup snapm/_snapm.py, snapm/manager/_manager.py, tests/test_snapm.py, tests/test_manager.py
MountInfoReader parses mountinfo and indexes entries by device number. Snapshot mounted-state checks and manager mount-point lookup use this reader. Snapshot-set checks share one reader across member checks.
Mount-state records and runtime setup snapm/manager/_mountstate.py, snapm/manager/_manager.py, snapm.spec, systemd/tmpfiles.d/snapm.conf, tests/test_mountstate.py
Mount-state records store snapshot-set identity, root-device details, mount path, and mount-point ownership. Record persistence is atomic, and mount operations use an exclusive lock. Manager startup and runtime configuration create the state directory with mode 0700.
Mount creation, discovery, and cleanup snapm/manager/_mounts.py, tests/test_mounts.py, doc/user_guide.rst, man/man8/snapm.8
Mount operations write and validate provenance records. Discovery matches recorded mounts to sets by UUID and device information. Mount and unmount operations serialize state changes; reporting filters mounts against current records. Mounts receive the x-snapm.managed=<uuid> option. Documentation describes record-based discovery and unmounting.
sequenceDiagram
participant Manager
participant Mounts
participant MountStateDir
participant MountInfoReader
Manager->>Mounts: Request snapshot-set mount
Mounts->>MountStateDir: Persist provenance record
Mounts->>MountInfoReader: Validate mounted device and managed option
Mounts->>MountStateDir: Update record after mount
Manager->>Mounts: Discover or unmount snapshot set
Mounts->>MountStateDir: Load provenance records
Mounts->>MountInfoReader: Validate recorded path and device
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Security risk before this change: Major. A manual root-snapshot mount could be mistaken for a snapm mount and later unmounted. Residual risk: Low.
[#1025] Mount discovery now requires persisted mount…
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Security risk before this change: Major. A manual root-snapshot mount could be mistaken for a snapm mount and later unmounted. Residual risk: Low.
[#1025] Mount discovery now requires persisted mount-state provenance. Records bind the snapshot-set UUID, mount path, root device number, and mount status. Discovery ignores unrecorded or stale mounts. Mount and unmount tests cover manual mounts, legitimate default and custom mounts, renamed devices, stale records, and unmount protection.
[#1027] Mount creation adds x-snapm.managed=<UUID> to root, submount, and bind mounts. Separate propagation commands preserve the userspace option. Tests verify the option and rediscovery.
[#1030] MountInfoReader indexes /proc/self/mountinfo by device number. Snapshot and manager mount checks reuse this reader instead of comparing names from /proc/mounts. Tests cover renamed device paths and aliases.
[#1031] Mount state records the root device and device number when mounting. Discovery reuses the recorded root device, so it does not derive a conflicting root for sets without a / member. Tests cover root-device and anonymous-superblock cases.
Issue #1038 is closed and supplies historical context only.
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Security risk from scope expansion: Low. The changed code supports the active linked issues.
Mount-state records, atomic persistence, locking, and runtime-directory permissions support ownership and root-device provenance for [#1025] and [#1031]. Mount-info and userspace mount-table readers support device-number matching for [#1030] and managed-option verification for [#1027]. Rollback and propagation handling support correct managed mounting. Tests cover these behaviors. Documentation, tmpfiles configuration, and package metadata document and provision the new runtime state. No unrelated functional change is established. Issue #1038 does not add scope.
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Update the rename rationale: this change made it stale.
This paragraph still says a mounted set cannot be renamed "because the mount table records its member device names at mount time". After this PR, mounts are matched by device number (#1030), so that reason no longer holds. The code comments in SnapshotSet.rename() and _check_snapset_mounted() now give the real reason: mount point paths embed the set name, and the provenance record is keyed by the set UUID, which a rename changes. man/man8/snapm.8 lines 1217-1219 repeat the same stale text.
Impact: low. The documentation is wrong, but behavior is not affected.
Proposed fix
-A mounted snapshot set cannot be renamed because the mount table records-its member device names at mount time. Unmount the set with-``snapm snapset umount`` before renaming it.+A mounted snapshot set cannot be renamed: its mount point path embeds the+set name, and the record of the mount in ``/run/snapm/mount-state`` is+keyed on the set UUID, which a rename changes. Unmount the set with+``snapm snapset umount`` before renaming it.
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Review comment at @doc/user_guide.rst around lines 922 - 924:
Update the mounted snapshot set rename rationale to describe that mount point
paths embed the set name and the mount provenance record is keyed by the set
UUID, which changes on rename. Keep the unmount instruction, and update the
matching stale rationale in the man page as well.
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Review comments at @snapm/manager/_mounts.py:
- Around line 1347-1348: Update the exception handler around `_rollback_mount()`
so it does not discard the `_state` record when `mount_path` is still mounted;
preserve the record and propagate the failure in that case. Keep the existing
record-discard and directory-cleanup behavior when the path is no longer
mounted.
- Around line 1191-1194: Use the same exclusive flock in Mounts.mount() from
self._state.add() through mount completion or rollback, and in discover_mounts()
before loading and validating records through stale-record cleanup. Ensure both
operations use the same lock so discovery cannot discard an in-progress mount
record.
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- Around line 171-175: Update
test_find_mount_point_for_devpath_reads_the_mount_table to find a mount entry
whose source is an existing block device matching that entry’s device number,
then assert _find_mount_point_for_devpath returns the first mount point for that
device. Skip the test when no matching mount is available instead of assuming
the root mount’s source is usable.
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Review comments at @doc/user_guide.rst:
- Around line 922-924: Update the mounted snapshot set rename rationale to
describe that mount point paths embed the set name and the mount provenance
record is keyed by the set UUID, which changes on rename. Keep the unmount
instruction, and update the matching stale rationale in the man page as well.
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The parameter was commented out rather than removed when the caller
stopped passing a reader down. Nothing reads it and nothing can pass
it, so remove it.
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Mounts._check_mounts_dir() calls lstat() on the mounts directory, which
reads as a guard against a symbolic link planted there. It is not one:
since commit 56e239f the path has been realpath()-resolved before it is
stored, so lstat() and stat() can only differ for a link swapped in
afterwards, under /run/snapm, which only root can write to. The real
symbolic link check is in _check_snapm_dir(), which the Manager runs on
the unresolved path before building the Mounts object.
Use stat() and say in a comment where the symbolic link check lives, so
that the checks that remain here read as what they are: the ownership
and permission checks on the directory that mount points are created in.
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/proc/mounts records the device name that was passed to mount(8), and
keeps it for as long as the file system stays mounted. A logical volume
renamed afterwards therefore reads as unmounted everywhere snapm
matches the recorded name against a device it knows about, which is how
snapm answers "is this device mounted, and where" in three places.
Add MountInfoReader, which reads /proc/self/mountinfo instead. That
table carries the device number of each mount, so a device is matched
by stat()ing the path snapm already holds and comparing st_rdev against
the major:minor field: the name the kernel recorded is never consulted
and cannot go stale. Entries are indexed by device number as the table
is parsed, so a lookup costs one stat() of the device rather than one
stat() for every entry in the table.
The device number the kernel reports is that of the mounted file
system, which is the st_rdev of the backing device only for a file
system backed by a single block device. One with an anonymous
superblock, such as btrfs or overlay, is given a device number with a
major of zero that is the st_rdev of nothing at all. Index such a mount
under the device it was mounted by as well, so that a caller holding a
path to that device finds it: the two sets of keys cannot collide,
since an anonymous device number has a major of zero and the device
number of a block device does not. The name recorded at mount time is
the only handle such a mount has, so a device renamed after it was
mounted is still reported as unmounted.
devno_mounted_at() composes the two lookups a caller needs to ask
whether a given device is the one mounted at a given path, so that the
rule about anonymous superblocks is stated here rather than at each
call site.
Nothing calls it yet: the call sites are converted next.
Related: snapshotmanager#1030
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Three places answered "is this device mounted, and where" by taking the
device name recorded in /proc/mounts, resolving it, and comparing
inodes: ProcMountsReader.lookup_device(), Snapshot.snapshot_mounted and
_find_mount_point_for_devpath(). The mount table keeps the name the
device was mounted by, so a logical volume renamed afterwards reads as
unmounted at all three, which among other things silently disables the
mounted-set guard in SnapshotSet.delete().
Convert all three to MountInfoReader, which matches on the device
number of the device snapm already holds a path to. The name recorded
at mount time is no longer consulted, so it cannot go stale, and the
lookup costs one stat() of that device rather than one stat() for every
entry in the mount table.
Snapshot.snapshot_mounted and Snapshot.origin_mounted gain
is_snapshot_mounted() and is_origin_mounted() counterparts that take a
mount table to test against, so that the SnapshotSet properties, which
test every member, read the table once rather than once per member.
Snapshot.origin_mounted also stops accepting a non-block device
mounted at the member's mount point as the origin.
Both ask the table through devno_mounted_at() rather than comparing a
device number with the one the table reports, so that an origin or a
snapshot carrying a file system with an anonymous superblock is found.
Resolves: snapshotmanager#1030
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Mount._do_mount() carries the whole mount sequence and the rollback
that undoes it, which makes the four numbered steps hard to pick out
and leaves the method at pylint's local variable limit.
Move the API file system bind mounts and the rollback into methods of
their own. No functional change.
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Mount discovery matched each snapshot set's member devices against the
mount table and registered whatever that turned up. A matching device
is not evidence that snapm made the mount: an administrator who mounts
a set's root snapshot at /mnt/inspect by hand produces a mount that
passes every check discovery can make from the mount table, and a
later unqualified 'snapset umount' then takes it down and removes the
directory it was mounted on.
Record each mount as it is made instead, and register only mounts that
have a record. A record lives in /run/snapm/mount-state, named for the
path it describes escaped the way systemd escapes a path into a unit
name, and holds the unescaped mount path, the name and UUID of the
snapshot set, the device mounted at that path with its device number,
and whether snapm created the mount point and should remove it again.
The records are in /run, so they last exactly as long as the mounts
they describe.
A record is written to a temporary name and renamed into place, so a
command interrupted partway through writing one leaves either the
previous record or none, never a truncated one. The temporary name
wears a leading '.tmp-': the escaping never produces a name beginning
with a dot, because it escapes a leading dot as systemd does, so a
record can never be mistaken for one that is half-written. A suffix
could not do the same, since '.' is a character the escaping leaves
alone anywhere else, and a set named 'backup.tmp' would escape to a
name ending in it. The name length limit reserves room for the prefix.
Discovery verifies each record against the mount table before
registering it: the path has to still be a mount point, and the device
mounted there has to still be the recorded one, so a mount point that
snapm's mount was taken off and something else was mounted on is not
claimed either. A record that does not verify is discarded, taking
with it the mount point if snapm created it.
A record is matched to its snapshot set by UUID and by nothing else.
The name is recorded so that the directory can be read: matching on it
would attach a mount to whichever set holds the name now, so a set
whose volumes were removed outside snapm could hand its mount tree to
a new set created with the same name.
Recording the device also settles which device that is. Discovery used
to derive the root device for a set with no '/' member from the live
root file system while Mount._do_mount() mounted whatever
find_snapset_root() returned from fstab; booting a boom snapshot entry
makes the two disagree, and a set that is mounted is then not found.
Mounts.mount() now settles the device once with find_snapset_root() and
hands the same value to both the mount and the record, so discovery
verifies what was mounted rather than deriving a second answer.
_owns_mount_point() answers from the record rather than from the
position of the path, so a path with no record is never one snapm
removes. An unmount whose mount point cannot be removed afterwards
still finishes: the unmount succeeded, so the record goes and the
leftover directory is reported as the untidiness it is rather than as
a failed unmount.
Refusing to rename a mounted set is given its real reason while this
is here. The mount table no longer records anything snapm relies on,
since mounts are matched by device number; what a rename changes is
the name and UUID the record identifies the set by.
A snapshot set that was already mounted when snapm is upgraded has no
record and is not discovered: it has to be unmounted by hand. This is
noted in the user guide.
Resolves: snapshotmanager#1025Resolves: snapshotmanager#1031
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Nothing in the mount table says that a mount is one snapm made, so an
administrator looking for them has to know where to look. A snapshot
set mounted with --mount-root can be anywhere.
Pass x-snapm.managed=<uuid> to every mount in a snapshot set mount
tree, naming the snapshot set that is mounted. The option is in the
"x-" namespace, so the kernel never sees it: mount(8) keeps it in
/run/mount/utab and findmnt(8) reports it alongside the kernel's own
options, which makes the mounts snapm made findable wherever they are:
# findmnt -m -o TARGET,OPTIONS -O x-snapm.managed
TARGET OPTIONS
/mnt rw,relatime,seclabel,nouuid,x-snapm.managed=f48e...
Changing the propagation type now takes a second call to mount(8).
Given on the same command line as the mount, a "--make-*" flag is
applied by a second mount(2) that rewrites the userspace mount table
entry and drops the "x-" options recorded with the mount, so the
snapshot set root and the API file system bind mounts would carry no
marker at all.
The option names the set by UUID, which is the form the mount
provenance records are written with and the only one a record has to
hand. For now it is a label for the administrator: snapm decides what
it owns from the records in /run/snapm/mount-state, not from the mount
table.
Resolves: snapshotmanager#1027
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A record is written before the mount it describes is made, and carries
the device number of the device snapm set out to mount. Verification
then compares that with the device number the mount table reports, which
is the device number of the mounted file system: the two agree only for
a file system backed by a single block device, so a record for anything
else never verifies again and the next command discards it.
Note the device number the kernel gave the mount once the mount is up,
and re-write the record with it. Verification compares that with the
mount table directly, which is like with like whatever the file system
is. A record with none was written by a command that did not reach the
end of its mount: all it names is the device it set out to mount, so
match that through the mount table index, which resolves a device to
its mounts whether or not the file system has an anonymous superblock.
The field is last in the record because it is the one thing that is not
known when the record is first written, and reading a record without it
yields None rather than failing: until it is filled in the record
describes an intention rather than a mount.
Keep the record when a mount fails and leaves something mounted behind.
Rollback logs and carries on when it cannot unmount what it mounted, so
the tree can still be up when the failure is handled; discarding the
record there leaves a mount that no snapm command can find again and
that has to be taken down by hand. Discard it only once nothing is
mounted at the path, and say so in the log when it is kept.
Related: snapshotmanager#1025
Related: snapshotmanager#1030
Related: snapshotmanager#1031
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Discovery runs from the Mounts constructor, which runs for every
command: reporting on snapshot sets, listing schedules, garbage
collection in a timer. It used to delete as it went, discarding the
record for any path that did not verify, removing the mount point
with it, and reading the record directory removed the temporary files
left by an interrupted write.
A record is written before the mount it describes is made, so a record
for a path with nothing mounted on it is as likely to describe a mount
another process is making right now as one that is over. A read-only
command could therefore unlink the record of a mount in progress and
remove the directory it was about to be mounted on: the mount then
fails, or, if it had already been made, survives with no record and
can never be unmounted by snapm again. A temporary file is worse still,
since it belongs to a write that is happening at that moment: deleting
it makes the rename that completes the record fail with ENOENT, and an
otherwise valid 'snapset mount' aborts.
Leave the record directory alone while reading it. Discovery passes
over a record it cannot verify rather than discarding it, load() skips
a temporary file rather than unlinking it, and both kinds of tidying up
move to _reap_stale_records(), called from mount() and umount(). Those
commands write to the directory in any case, so nothing new is being
serialised and no command is made to write that did not before.
Two commands that both mount or unmount can still overlap. Closing
that needs the record directory to be locked: this will be addressed in
a separate commit.
Related: snapshotmanager#1025
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Discovery no longer writes to the record directory, so a command that
only reports can no longer disturb a mount in progress. Two commands
that both mount or unmount still can: a record is written before the
mount it describes is made, and between those two points it describes
a path with nothing mounted on it, which is indistinguishable from a
record left behind by a mount that is over. The other command reaps it,
and takes the mount point with it.
Add /run/snapm/lock/mount-state.lock and hold it across the whole of
mount() and umount(), the mount(8) and umount(8) calls included. The
record written before the mount and the update written after it are
then one change as far as any other command is concerned, which a lock
over the individual record writes would not achieve: the gap that has
to be closed is the one the mount sits in. find_mounts() prunes, which
writes, so it takes the lock for the prune and not for the matching
that follows.
The lock is separate from the manager lock rather than an extension of
it. The two protect different things over different spans: the manager
lock covers one mutating operation on snapshot sets and is taken
non-blocking, so extending it here would make a reporting command fail
outright whenever a mount was in progress (snapshotmanager#1020). The mount state lock
is taken non-blocking with retries up to a time limit, because waiting
for a mount that is already running is the expected outcome and not an
error.
Where both are held the order is manager.lock then mount-state.lock.
The reverse is invalid. Nothing in Mounts can invert it: the only use
it makes of the manager is the snapshot_sets property, and activating
a snapshot set goes directly to the plugins, so no manager method that
locks is reachable from here.
The holder writes its pid to the lock file and the timeout message
reads it back, so a wait names the process to look at with ps(1). The
pid is only as good as the holder's last write, and there is a short
window after the lock is taken in which nothing has been written yet,
so an empty or unparseable file is passed over in silence rather than
guessed at.
The cost of covering the callouts is that a mount(8) hung on an
unresponsive device delays another mount or unmount until the lock
times out. Nothing else waits on it: listing, creating, deleting and
the schedule timers do not take this lock.
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_prune_stale_mounts() did three things in one loop: it dropped the
entries that no longer describe a mount, it removed the mount point and
the record each of them left behind, and it recomputed the mount root
reported for the set. Only the middle one writes anything, and that is
what forced find_mounts() to take the mount state lock: reporting on
mounts had to be serialised against mounting because, buried in the
same loop, it removed directories and records.
Split it in two: _forget_stale_mounts() drops the entries and
recomputes the reported mount root, and returns what it dropped: both
of those follow from the mount table as it is now, nothing leaves this
object, and so it needs no lock. Then, _remove_stale_mounts() takes that
list and removes the mount point, where snapm made it, and the record.
mount() and umount() call both, under the lock, and are unchanged.
find_mounts() calls only the first and takes no lock, so reporting on
mounts can no longer wait on a mount that is in progress.
A stale mount point therefore outlives a 'snapset list' that would
previously have cleaned it up as a side effect, and goes when something
next mounts or unmounts. A command that reports should not be deleting
things, and the mount points concerned are snapm's own, in the runtime
directory, so nothing is left anywhere an administrator put it.
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The lock makes one change to the mount state exclusive of another, but
each command still decided what to do from the copy read when the
Mounts object was built, which is before the lock was taken and may be
long before it for a caller that keeps a Manager around. Two commands
could therefore still interleave, with the second acting on a view of
the mount state that the first had already invalidated.
Unmounting a file system that is not snapm's: a command discovers the
mount of a set at a path, another command unmounts it and discards its
record, and an administrator mounts something else there. The path is
still a mount point, so the entry survives _forget_stale_mounts(), and
the unmount takes down the administrator's mount and everything under
it. That is the outcome the records exist to prevent (snapshotmanager#1025).
Discarding the record of a live mount: the reap walks the records read
at discovery. If another command has discarded a record and mounted the
set again at the same path, the stale copy is tested against the mount
table, does not verify, and the record written for the new mount is
unlinked, leaving a live mount with no provenance.
Re-read the records once the lock is held, and make the records decide
which entries a command may act on at all. An entry is kept only where
a record for its path exists, names the same snapshot set by UUID, and
still describes what is mounted there: the presence of a record says
that something of snapm's is mounted at the path, not that it is the
thing the entry describes. Nothing else catches that, since
_record_is_live() checks a record against the mount table rather than
against the candidate, and MountBase.umount() checks only that the
path is a mount point before unmounting the tree under it.
find_mounts() goes through the same check rather than answering from
the entries built at discovery, so reporting and acting agree about
which mounts belong to a set instead of agreeing only when nothing has
changed since. None of it writes, so reporting still neither takes the
mount state lock nor waits on one: what it returns is what was true
when it looked, which is all a report can be.
An entry the check rejects is forgotten rather than merely filtered
out, in the same way as one with nothing mounted at its path, and the
mount root reported for its set is recomputed from what is left.
Keeping it would describe the mount state two ways at once: 'snapset
list' would name a path the set is mounted at that 'snapset umount'
then says it is not mounted at.
The selection tests register stub mounts with nothing mounted at their
paths, so record verification is stubbed out for those classes: without
it the reap discards every record before the test under it runs.
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The kernel never sees a mount option in the "x-" namespace, so mount(8)
keeps those options in a table of its own at /run/mount/utab, and
umount(8) removes the entry for a mount point as it unmounts it. That
makes an entry a property of one mount, where a device number describes
a file system and a kernel mount ID is handed back to the next mount
that asks for one.
Add a reader for it, alongside the one for the kernel's mount table.
Only the mount point and the options are parsed: nothing asks this
reader what is mounted, only whether a mount it has already found
carries an option. The format is libmount's own, so the parsing takes
the fields it knows by name and ignores the rest.
A table that is not there is an empty one rather than an error. A
system where no mount carries a userspace option has no table at all,
and the answer there is the same as for a mount that carries none.
A table that is there and cannot be read is neither. It is reported
through a readable flag rather than as an empty table, because the two
mean opposite things to a caller: "no mount here carries the option" is
an answer to act on, and a transient EIO or EACCES is not an answer at
all. The entries are left empty either way, so nothing has to cope with
a half-read table.
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A record was verified against the device mounted at the path it names,
and a device number identifies a file system rather than one mount of
it. A record outlives a mount taken down outside snapm until the next
command that writes reaps it, so an administrator who mounts the same
snapshot device at the same path in that window makes a mount the
record matches exactly. Discovery then adopts it, and an unqualified
umount takes it off the system: the mount is the administrator's, and
whatever is using it loses it.
Require the x-snapm.managed option as well. It is recorded by mount(8)
with the mount and removed by umount(8) with it, so it belongs to one
mount in a way the kernel's own identifiers do not: a mount ID is
reused, and three mount and unmount cycles at one path here returned
the same ID every time. The option is already written to every mount
snapm makes (snapshotmanager#1027), and the mount made by hand does not carry it.
The record notes whether the mount was marked when it was made, and the
option is required only where it was. A system whose mount(8) keeps no
userspace mount table records no mark, and demanding one there would
make every mount snapm makes unrecognisable to the next command; the
mount is verified by its device as before, and the mount that could not
be marked is logged.
A table that exists and cannot be read is not that case, and neither
path may treat it as one. Reaping would see every marked record as a
mount that had lost its mark and unlink the record of a mount that is
still up, leaving it to be found and taken down by hand; recording the
answer at mount time would write the weaker form into a record that
keeps it for the rest of its life, so an administrator's mount of the
same device at the same path could later pass verification. Both stop
instead. A mount is refused before anything is mounted or recorded,
and a reap is refused before anything is discarded, which leaves the
records as they are for a command to retry once the table can be read.
Reaping stops only where some record is verified by its mark, since
nothing else consults the table.
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If a post-mount check fails and /run contains a same-filesystem bind mount, this check can skip that submount. Python does not reliably detect such bind mounts with os.path.ismount(). (docs.python.org) The remaining submount can keep its parents busy, leaving a partially mounted tree behind the incomplete record.
Attempt to unmount the submounts returned by ProcMountsReader; check the separately appended root independently.
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if a step after the mount fails, roll back the mount before the outer
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Address the second set of follow-up fixes for issues opened during the review & discussion for #1007. This establishes explicit provenance and state tracking for mounts managed by
snapmvia files written to a new runtime directory at/run/snapm/mount-state. Each file containes a JSON object describing the mount root, named for the mount point as encoded bysystemd-escape --path.Related: #1020
Related: #1025
Related: #1030
Related: #1031
Resolves: #1025
Resolves: #1027
Resolves: #1030
Resolves: #1031
Resolves: #1038
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snapmrediscover managed mounts and associate them with the correct snapshot set.findmnt.findmntexamples, and guidance on renaming mounted snapshot sets.