[DSE-Dev] Bug#823184: umount mounts /proc as a side effect

[Laurent Bigonville]

Can you please try the patch that has been attached to the bug and tell 
me if it's fixing your issue?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823184#44


Le 13/05/16 à 17:49, Laurent Bigonville a écrit :
> Le 13/05/16 à 17:16, Yuri D'Elia a écrit :
>> On Fri, May 13 2016, Laurent Bigonville<bigon at debian.org>  wrote:
>>> Again this is supposed to happen at early boot, and at this stage, only
>>> PID1 exists. So I doubt there is a lot of concurrent processes at that time.
>> But this is not checked in the source.
>> In fact, this behavior will happen irregardless of the boot stage.
>
> It doesn't do anything if /proc is already mounted, which is IMHO 
> expected on a fully booted machine and even container.
>
>>
>>>> Even if the fix is simply the removal of the mountpoint, I consider the
>>>> solution broken by design.
>>> What about mounting /proc really early?
>> I can say the same about initramfs. Can't initramfs just mount /proc
>> sooner and fix the problem correctly?
>
> initramfs in debian is, like I said, already doing so.
>
> SELinux upstream is probably supporting more usecases, apparently not 
> yours.
>
> [...]
>
>> I, honestly, expected someone that understand the issue to help and
>> chime to report it upstream.
>
> But you didn't really explained me what the usecase was and why you 
> were not able to mount /proc early...
>
> Anyway, I already reported it upstream, let's see if the come with a 
> patch.

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