The experimental root file system support in cifs.ko relies on ipconfig to set up the network stack and then accessing the SMB share that contains the rootfs files. Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index 9bcca08efec9..32e20b758b68 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c @@ -1483,10 +1483,10 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void) * missing values. */ if (ic_myaddr == NONE || -#ifdef CONFIG_ROOT_NFS +#if defined(CONFIG_ROOT_NFS) || defined(CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT) (root_server_addr == NONE && ic_servaddr == NONE && - ROOT_DEV == Root_NFS) || + (ROOT_DEV == Root_NFS || ROOT_DEV == Root_CIFS)) || #endif ic_first_dev->next) { #ifdef IPCONFIG_DYNAMIC @@ -1513,6 +1513,12 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void) goto try_try_again; } #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT + if (ROOT_DEV == Root_CIFS) { + pr_err("IP-Config: Retrying forever (CIFS root)...\n"); + goto try_try_again; + } +#endif if (--retries) { pr_err("IP-Config: Reopening network devices...\n"); -- 2.23.0