Re: [PATCH] init: Warn on non-existent rdinit

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> writes:

> Such a warning would have saved me some time...
> Hopefully this printk() saves someone else's time. :-)

The warning is wrong if you are not using an initramfs or an initial
ramdisk.

I expect what you want is something like:

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 217ed23..8d53d28 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -830,10 +830,11 @@ static int __init kernel_init(void * unused)
         * the work
         */
 
-       if (!ramdisk_execute_command)
+       if (!ramdisk_execute_command &&
+           (sys_access((const char __user *)"/init", 0) == 0))
                ramdisk_execute_command = "/init";
 
-       if (sys_access((const char __user *) ramdisk_execute_command, 0) != 0) {
+       if (!ramdisk_execute_command) {
                ramdisk_execute_command = NULL;
                prepare_namespace();
        }


That way we don't clear ramdisk_execute_command if it was set and
we complain if we attempt exec the ramdisk_execute_command.

Eric