From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to fix kldstat(2) / dtrace when booting FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:12:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C14B8C.1090700@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B3F245.6020708@pcbsd.org>
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On 12.01.2015 17:11, Kris Moore wrote:
> On 01/11/2015 13:27, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> В Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:31:26 -0500
>> Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> пишет:
>>
>>> The following patch fixes an important issue when booting FreeBSD.
>>> FreeBSD's kldstat(2) function expects that the full pathname will be
>>> provided to kernel / modules. The current GRUB was striping this out and
>>> only leaving the filename itself. This broke dtrace and other things
>>> which used the full pathname to locate the kernel or modules on disk.
>>>
>>> The attached patch fixes this behavior.
>>>
>>> diff --git a/grub-core/loader/i386/bsd.c b/grub-core/loader/i386/bsd.c
>>> index 8f691e0..fb47969 100644
>>> --- a/grub-core/loader/i386/bsd.c
>>> +++ b/grub-core/loader/i386/bsd.c
>>> @@ -415,11 +415,15 @@ grub_freebsd_add_meta_module (const char *filename, const char *type,
>>> grub_addr_t addr, grub_uint32_t size)
>>> {
>>> const char *name;
>>> - name = grub_strrchr (filename, '/');
>>> + /* Don't strip the full path, some FreeBSD functionality, such
>>> + * as kldstat(2) / dtrace, rely on this. Instead we only need to remove
>>> + * any ZFS dataset information first. */
>>> + name = grub_strrchr (filename, '@');
>> What if filename itself contains '@'? Is it possible?
>>
> I don't see anything in the manpages that explicitly prohibits certain
> characters, however, all the modules FreeBSD uses, and ones in ports,
> don't use any special characters of any kind. I suspect that having a
> module with a '@' in it would cause other potential breakage as well.
>
* dataset name never contains @. So it should be grub_strchr.
* You don't handle the case when name doesn't contain @
* Disk name needs to be stripped first.
* This code is ZFS specific. You need a separate code path for other
filesystems.
>
>>> if (name)
>>> name++;
>>> else
>>> name = filename;
>>> +
>> Please, could we avoid unrelated formatting changes?
>>
>>> if (grub_strcmp (type, "/boot/zfs/zpool.cache") == 0)
>>> name = "/boot/zfs/zpool.cache";
>>>
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>
> Here you go, without the formatting changes.
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-09 16:31 Patch to fix kldstat(2) / dtrace when booting FreeBSD Kris Moore
2015-01-11 18:27 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-01-12 16:11 ` Kris Moore
2015-01-22 19:12 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
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