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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-04-28 11:34:33 +0930
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-04-28 11:48:34 +0930
commit51e158c12aca3c9ac63988611a97c05109b14dc9 (patch)
tree579ef4259a17200a77ec111c6a6ca082d43a368d /init/main.c
parent2ee41e62ba5b952e9d9fcba6f7079a0c608bb849 (diff)
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param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
The kernel passes any args it doesn't need through to init, except it assumes anything containing '.' belongs to the kernel (for a module). This change means all users can clearly distinguish which arguments are for init. For example, the kernel uses debug ("dee-bug") to mean log everything to the console, where systemd uses the debug from the Scandinavian "day-boog" meaning "fail to boot". If a future versions uses argv[] instead of reading /proc/cmdline, this confusion will be avoided. eg: test 'FOO="this is --foo"' -- 'systemd.debug="true true true"' Gives: argv[0] = '/debug-init' argv[1] = 'test' argv[2] = 'systemd.debug=true true true' envp[0] = 'HOME=/' envp[1] = 'TERM=linux' envp[2] = 'FOO=this is --foo' Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/main.c')
-rw-r--r--init/main.c33
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 9c7fd4c9249f..e9d458b5d77b 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -252,6 +252,27 @@ static int __init repair_env_string(char *param, char *val, const char *unused)
return 0;
}
+/* Anything after -- gets handed straight to init. */
+static int __init set_init_arg(char *param, char *val, const char *unused)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ if (panic_later)
+ return 0;
+
+ repair_env_string(param, val, unused);
+
+ for (i = 0; argv_init[i]; i++) {
+ if (i == MAX_INIT_ARGS) {
+ panic_later = "init";
+ panic_param = param;
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+ argv_init[i] = param;
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* Unknown boot options get handed to init, unless they look like
* unused parameters (modprobe will find them in /proc/cmdline).
@@ -478,7 +499,7 @@ static void __init mm_init(void)
asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
{
- char * command_line;
+ char * command_line, *after_dashes;
extern const struct kernel_param __start___param[], __stop___param[];
/*
@@ -519,9 +540,13 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
pr_notice("Kernel command line: %s\n", boot_command_line);
parse_early_param();
- parse_args("Booting kernel", static_command_line, __start___param,
- __stop___param - __start___param,
- -1, -1, &unknown_bootoption);
+ after_dashes = parse_args("Booting kernel",
+ static_command_line, __start___param,
+ __stop___param - __start___param,
+ -1, -1, &unknown_bootoption);
+ if (after_dashes)
+ parse_args("Setting init args", after_dashes, NULL, 0, -1, -1,
+ set_init_arg);
jump_label_init();