Re: Regression in automount between 2021.07.0 and 2022.05.0

[Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 06:45:10PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> while updating barebox from 2021.07.0 to 2022.05.0 I hit a regression:
> 
> The behaviour of 2022.05.0 looks as follows:
> 
> 	bootloader: automount -d /mnt/usbstorage 'usb && if [ -e /dev/disk0.0 ]; then mount /dev/disk0.0 /mnt/usbstorage; elif [ -e /dev/disk0 ]; then mount /dev/disk0 /mnt/usbstorage; fi'
> 	bootloader: ls /mnt/usbstorage/
> 
> Without an USB drive this hangs until the watchdog resets the board. I
> guess the problem is that the automount script is called again and again
> because nothing was mounted.

I just tried 2021.07.0 and the behaviour seems to be the same. I don't
think it's a regression.

automount -d /mnt/foo true
ls /mnt/foo

makes barebox hang. That shouldn't happen of course.

> 
> I can workaround that problem by doing:
> 
> 	bootloader: automount -d /mnt/usbstorage 'usb && if [ -e /dev/disk0.0 ]; then mount /dev/disk0.0 /mnt/usbstorage; elif [ -e /dev/disk0 ]; then mount /dev/disk0 /mnt/usbstorage; else false; fi'
> 	bootloader: ls /mnt/usbstorage/
> 	running automount command 'usb && if [ -e /dev/disk0.0 ]; then mount /dev/disk0.0 /mnt/usbstorage; elif [ -e /dev/disk0 ]; then mount /dev/disk0 /mnt/usbstorage; else false; fi' failed
> 	ls: /mnt/usbstorage/: No such device
> 	running automount command 'usb && if [ -e /dev/disk0.0 ]; then mount /dev/disk0.0 /mnt/usbstorage; elif [ -e /dev/disk0 ]; then mount /dev/disk0 /mnt/usbstorage; else false; fi' failed
> 
> but there is still something non-optimal.
> 
> I can look into that, but I'm not entirely sure what the right behaviour
> is.
> 
> Should a command that doesn't mount something considered to have failed?
> (I think that's how it was with 2021.07.0.)

That sounds promising.

Sascha

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