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authorDavid Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>2019-01-03 15:28:31 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-01-04 13:13:47 -0800
commitff1522bb7d98450c72aea729f0b4147bc9986aed (patch)
treefadb82e66cee5dcd1dadd78f11676be0ad6f6d9d /init
parentb058809bfc8faeb7b7cae047666e23375a060059 (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/initramfs.c6
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
}