destroy() not being called on Linux

[mgree]

I'm using fuser on macOS and Linux. My filesystem writes data back out when destroy() is called, which works fine on macOS. On Linux, it seems like destroy() is never getting called.

This issue may be old: https://github.com/zargony/fuse-rs/issues/151. Others have had issues with libfuse not properly calling destroy due to signal handlers.

You can see a successful run on macOS; the relevant "calling sync" lines don't appear on Linux.

I had suspected that calling fusermount -u instead of umount was the key, but it makes no difference. Killing the process doesn't help either.

[mgree]

A workaround (in mgree/ffs#8): I use Drop::drop instead of Filesystem::destroy to write my output.

[cberner]

Thanks for the report. Ya, I can confirm that I don't see destroy called. I'm looking into whether it works with a naive C filesystem built with libfuse

[mgree]

Awesome---thanks for the super fast turnaround on this! 🎉

Glancing at the change log in #154, am I right to understand that the contract with destroy() is that it will be called exactly once?

[cberner]

Yes, it should now be called exactly once, and no other methods should be called after destroy()

[mgree]

I'm working on upgrading ffs to fuser 0.9.1 (fuser-0.9.1 branch), but I'm getting some weird behaviors on Linux---notably that destroy isn't getting called, and I'm now getting an OS error when drop is called.

You can see an example in my CI logs, where there's no log from destroy and on os error 14 (EFAULT, bad address).

Any idea what could be going wrong here?

[cberner]

Hmm, can you check if this line prints in your log, with logging enabled? https://github.com/cberner/fuser/blob/master/src/session.rs#L180

Also, are you mounting the filesystem with mount or spawn_mount?

[mgree]

I am not getting the unmount print in my logs.

I'm using mount2 to mount things. There's some weirdness, there, too: I get a fusermount warning about an option I'm not using.

[mgree]

I tried a run where I don't do anything in drop and only use destroy, and you can see that even there destroy isn't being called.

I haven't dug into fuser code yet, but could it be that the reference to my FS isn't living long enough, and it's getting dropped before the call to destroy gets made?

[mgree]

Oh, in fact: that fusermount error was the core issue. If you look at the ubuntu logs, it seems like FS is dropped right after the fusermount error. Apparently fuser is adding allow_other because I use autounmount.

Here's the /etc/fuse.conf GitHub CI is giving me (it's all defaults):

# /etc/fuse.conf - Configuration file for Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)

# Set the maximum number of FUSE mounts allowed to non-root users.
# The default is 1000.
#mount_max = 1000

# Allow non-root users to specify the allow_other or allow_root mount options.
#user_allow_other

The new logic in https://github.com/cberner/fuser/commit/0009aa184b9c91fbeacb6f364d28571192af70ae adds the allow_other option, which my config doesn't allow. Turning off autounmount seems to solve the problem.

Would you accept a PR that gave a user-facing warning (at warn level) when allow_other is automatically added due to autounmount?

[cberner]

Yep, happy to a merge to PR to add that warning. Thanks for tracking it down!