In many situations, especially on read-only file systems
and initial ramdisks (intramfs/initrd), /etc/mtab does not exist.
Before this commit, kexec would fail to read mounts on such systems
in `find_mnt_by_fsname()`, such that `get_bootparam()` would not
`boot_params/data`, which would then lead to e.g. `setup_efi_data()`
not being called in `setup_efi_info()`.
As a result, kexec'ed kernels would not obtain EFI data,
subsequentially lack an `ACPI RSDP` entry, emitting:
ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20180810/tbxfroot-210)
and thus fail to turn off the machine on poweroff, instead printing only:
reboot: System halted
This problem had to be worked around by passing `acpi_rsdp=` manually
before. This commit obviates this workaround.
See also:
* https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/167#issuecomment-487320879
* http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2012-October/006924.html
Signed-off-by: Niklas Hambüchen <mail@xxxxxx>
---
kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
index 8fad115..74fb0c4 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ out:
/*
* This really only makes sense for virtual filesystems that are only expected
* to be mounted once (sysfs, debugsfs, proc), as it will return the first
- * instance listed in mtab.
+ * instance listed in /proc/mounts, falling back to mtab if absent.
*/
char *find_mnt_by_fsname(char *fsname)
{
@@ -440,7 +440,11 @@ char *find_mnt_by_fsname(char *fsname)
struct mntent *mnt;
char *mntdir;
- mtab = setmntent("/etc/mtab", "r");
+ mtab = setmntent("/proc/mounts", "r");
+ if (!mtab) {
+ // Fall back to mtab
+ mtab = setmntent("/etc/mtab", "r");
+ }
if (!mtab)
return NULL;
for(mnt = getmntent(mtab); mnt; mnt = getmntent(mtab)) {
--
2.19.1
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