Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails

Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-01T18:13:38Z

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:05 AM, <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:53:56PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> I significantly prefer default N. Scripts that play with init= really
>> don't want the fallback, and I can imagine contexts in which it could
>> be a security problem.
>
> While I certainly would prefer the non-fallback behavior for init as
> well, standard kernel practice has typically been to use "default y" for
> previously built-in features that become configurable. And I'd
> certainly prefer a compile-time configuration option like this (even
> with default y) over a "strictinit" kernel command-line option.
>

Fair enough.

So: "default y" for a release or two, then switch the default? Having
default y will annoy virtme, though it's not the end of the world.
Virtme is intended to work with more-or-less-normal kernels.

--Andy