From 306a3e0cd7691a8fe01bf9d0b5227330a1f16f1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 18:54:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cmount: catch panics in initialization and turn into error
 messages

---
 cmd/cmount/mount.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmd/cmount/mount.go b/cmd/cmount/mount.go
index 5f33b9a19..a122f4863 100644
--- a/cmd/cmount/mount.go
+++ b/cmd/cmount/mount.go
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ func mount(VFS *vfs.VFS, mountpoint string, opt *mountlib.Options) (<-chan error
 	// Serve the mount point in the background returning error to errChan
 	errChan := make(chan error, 1)
 	go func() {
+		defer func() {
+			if r := recover(); r != nil {
+				errChan <- errors.Errorf("mount failed: %v", r)
+			}
+		}()
 		var err error
 		ok := host.Mount(mountpoint, options)
 		if !ok {