Blank mount names break parsing of /proc/mounts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Whenever a mount has an empty mnt_fsname, the glibc function getmntent incorrectly parses its input, resulting in reporting incorrect data to the caller.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
  • glibc-2.28-101.el8.x86_64

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