From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones , Al Viro , Paul Mackerras , Josh Boyer , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 3.13 34/46] fs/proc/proc_devtree.c: remove empty /proc/device-tree when no openfirmware exists. Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:32:18 -0700 Message-Id: <20140328173139.299972241@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140328173134.630198216@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140328173134.630198216@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Jones commit c1d867a54d426b45da017fbe8e585f8a3064ce8d upstream. Distribution kernels might want to build in support for /proc/device-tree for kernels that might end up running on hardware that doesn't support openfirmware. This results in an empty /proc/device-tree existing. Remove it if the OFW root node doesn't exist. This situation actually confuses grub2, resulting in install failures. grub2 sees the /proc/device-tree and picks the wrong install target cf. http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/annotate/4300/util/grub-install.in#L311 grub should be more robust, but still, leaving an empty proc dir seems pointless. Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818378. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Cc: Al Viro Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Josh Boyer Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/proc/proc_devtree.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ void __init proc_device_tree_init(void) return; root = of_find_node_by_path("/"); if (root == NULL) { + remove_proc_entry("device-tree", NULL); pr_debug("/proc/device-tree: can't find root\n"); return; }