From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com (Mimi Zohar) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:22:01 -0500 Subject: [RFC PATCH] rootfs: force mounting rootfs as tmpfs In-Reply-To: <20180201020331.GA3774@rani.riverdale> References: <1517348777.3469.5.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1814af5c-170d-39c0-58fd-02eb7216e008@landley.net> <1517436423.3469.237.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180201020331.GA3774@rani.riverdale> Message-ID: <1517458921.3329.2.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-security-module.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 21:03 -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:48:20PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > > On 01/31/2018 04:07 PM, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > > On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 13:32 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:>> (The old "I configured in tmpfs and am using rootfs but I want that > > rootfs > > >> to be ramfs, not tmpfs" code doesn't seem to be a real-world concern, does > > >> it?) > > > > > > I must be missing something. ?Which systems don't specify "root=" on > > > the boot command line. > > > > Any system using initrd or initramfs? > > > > Don't a lot of initramfs setups use root= to tell the initramfs which > actual root file system to switch to after early boot? With your patch and specifying "root=tmpfs", dracut is complaining: dracut: FATAL: Don't know how to handle 'root=tmpfs' dracut: refusing to continue Mimi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html