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authorAndrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>2021-11-08 18:34:27 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-09 10:02:51 -0800
commit8bc2b3dca7292347d8e715fb723c587134abe013 (patch)
treee0c93714653bf327fb697892f29c926bf0e941da /init
parent0858d7da8a09e440fb192a0239d20249a2d16af8 (diff)
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init: make unknown command line param message clearer
The prior message is confusing users, which is the exact opposite of the goal. If the message is being seen, one of the following situations is happening: 1. the param is misspelled 2. the param is not valid due to the kernel configuration 3. the param is intended for init but isn't after the '--' delineator on the command line To make that more clear to the user, explicitly mention "kernel command line" and also note that the params are still passed to user space to avoid causing any alarm over params intended for init. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211013223502.96756-1-ahalaney@redhat.com Fixes: 86d1919a4fb0 ("init: print out unknown kernel parameters") Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> 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/main.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index f0001af8ebb9..158ba0827106 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -924,7 +924,9 @@ static void __init print_unknown_bootoptions(void)
for (p = &envp_init[2]; *p; p++)
end += sprintf(end, " %s", *p);
- pr_notice("Unknown command line parameters:%s\n", unknown_options);
+ /* Start at unknown_options[1] to skip the initial space */
+ pr_notice("Unknown kernel command line parameters \"%s\", will be passed to user space.\n",
+ &unknown_options[1]);
memblock_free(unknown_options, len);
}