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| author | David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com> | 2019-01-03 15:28:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -0800 |
| commit | ff1522bb7d98450c72aea729f0b4147bc9986aed (patch) | |
| tree | fadb82e66cee5dcd1dadd78f11676be0ad6f6d9d | |
| parent | b058809bfc8faeb7b7cae047666e23375a060059 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ff1522bb7d98450c72aea729f0b4147bc9986aed.tar.gz lwn-ff1522bb7d98450c72aea729f0b4147bc9986aed.zip | |
initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
Unpacking an external initrd may fail e.g. not enough memory. This
leads to an incomplete rootfs because some files might be extracted
already. Fixed by cleaning the rootfs so the kernel is not using an
incomplete rootfs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181030151805.5519-1-david.engraf@sysgo.com
Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | init/initramfs.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c index fca899622937..7cea802d00ef 100644 --- a/init/initramfs.c +++ b/init/initramfs.c @@ -550,7 +550,6 @@ skip: initrd_end = 0; } -#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM #define BUF_SIZE 1024 static void __init clean_rootfs(void) { @@ -597,7 +596,6 @@ static void __init clean_rootfs(void) ksys_close(fd); kfree(buf); } -#endif static int __init populate_rootfs(void) { @@ -640,8 +638,10 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void) printk(KERN_INFO "Unpacking initramfs...\n"); err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start, initrd_end - initrd_start); - if (err) + if (err) { printk(KERN_EMERG "Initramfs unpacking failed: %s\n", err); + clean_rootfs(); + } free_initrd(); #endif } |