getmntinfo(3) is designed around a relatively static or slow growing set of
current mounts. It tried to detect a race with somewhat concurrent mount
and re-call getfsstat(2) in that case, looping indefinitely. It also
allocated space for a single extra mount as slop.
In the case where the user has a large number of mounts and is adding them
at a rapid pace, it fell over.
This patch makes two functional changes:
1. Allocate even more slop. Double whatever the last getfsstat(2) returned.
2. Abort and return some known results after looping a few times
(arbitrarily, 3). If the list is constantly changing, we can't guarantee
we return a full result to the user at any point anyways.
While here, add very basic functional tests for getmntinfo(3) to the libc
suite.
PR: 221743
Submitted by: Peter Eriksson <peter AT ifm.liu.se> (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
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