Re: [PATCH] init: fix bug where environment vars can't be passed via boot args

[Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>]

On 4/19/2012 6:17 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:53:50 -0400
> Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> wrote:
>
>> Commit 026cee0086f had the side-effect of dropping the '=' from
>> the unknown boot arguments that are passed to init as environment
>> variables.  This is because parse_args() puts a NUL in the string
>> where the '=' was when it passes the "param" and "val" pointers
>> to the parsing subfunctions.  Previously, unknown_bootoption() was
>> the last parse_args() subfunction to run, and it carefully put back
>> the '=' character.  Now ignore_unknown_bootoption() is the last
>> one to run, and it wasn't doing the necessary repair, so the
>> envp params ended up with the embedded NUL and were no longer
>> seen as valid environment variables by init.
> This patch has been stuck in your tree for a week or two.  The copy
> there is missing Woody's Tested-by and (I suspect) his Reported-by and
> Pawel's Acked-by.
>
> And because that patch is already in linux-next, I can't (or rather
> don't want to) merge it myself.
>
> It needs to be merged into 3.4.  Please fix up the changelog data and
> send it in?

I pulled it out of my linux-next tree and into my stable tree (for -rc
changes).  I'll send Linus a pull request now.  Thanks for noticing.

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