On 13/02/2019 17:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We free the initrd memory for all successful or error cases except
> for the case where opening /initrd.image fails, which looks like an
> oversight.
This also changes the behaviour when CONFIG_INITRAMFS_FORCE is enabled -
specifically it means that the initrd is freed (previously it was
ignored and never freed). But that seems like reasonable behaviour and
the previous behaviour looks like another oversight. FWIW:
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> init/initramfs.c | 14 ++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
> index 7cea802d00ef..1cba6bbeeb75 100644
> --- a/init/initramfs.c
> +++ b/init/initramfs.c
> @@ -610,13 +610,12 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
> printk(KERN_INFO "Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...\n");
> err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start,
> initrd_end - initrd_start);
> - if (!err) {
> - free_initrd();
> + if (!err)
> goto done;
> - } else {
> - clean_rootfs();
> - unpack_to_rootfs(__initramfs_start, __initramfs_size);
> - }
> +
> + clean_rootfs();
> + unpack_to_rootfs(__initramfs_start, __initramfs_size);
> +
> printk(KERN_INFO "rootfs image is not initramfs (%s)"
> "; looks like an initrd\n", err);
> fd = ksys_open("/initrd.image",
> @@ -630,7 +629,6 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
> written, initrd_end - initrd_start);
>
> ksys_close(fd);
> - free_initrd();
> }
> done:
> /* empty statement */;
> @@ -642,9 +640,9 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
> printk(KERN_EMERG "Initramfs unpacking failed: %s\n", err);
> clean_rootfs();
> }
> - free_initrd();
> #endif
> }
> + free_initrd();
> flush_delayed_fput();
> return 0;
> }
>
