On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM Michael Chang via Grub-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > The grub_find_device function scans a starting directory, typically > /dev, for device files with matching major and minor numbers. During > this process, it recursively descends into subdirectories. > > However, this can significantly slow down the scan if a subdirectory is > a mount point not related to devtmpfs, especially if it contains a large > number of files. > > This patch modifies grub_find_device() to skip subdirectories that are > mount points. A mount point is detected by comparing the st_dev of the > subdirectory against that of the parent or starting directory. While > this method does not catch all types of mounts, for eg bind mounts, it > is a practical solution that avoids the need to parse /proc/self/mounts. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <[email protected]> > --- > grub-core/osdep/unix/getroot.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) >
This looks reasonable to me. Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <[email protected]> -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
