From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 54c7a8916a887f357088f99e9c3a7720cd57d2c8 ] Patch series "initramfs tidyups". I've spent some time chasing down behavior in initramfs and found plenty of opportunity to improve the code. A first stab on that is contained in this series. This patch (of 7): 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. Steven said: : 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. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-3-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> [arm64] Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [m68k] Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- init/initramfs.c | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c index f6f4a1e4cd547..cd5fb00fcb549 100644 --- a/init/initramfs.c +++ b/init/initramfs.c @@ -612,13 +612,12 @@ 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", @@ -632,7 +631,6 @@ 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) initrd_end - initrd_start); if (err) printk(KERN_EMERG "Initramfs unpacking failed: %s\n", err); - free_initrd(); #endif } + free_initrd(); flush_delayed_fput(); /* * Try loading default modules from initramfs. This gives -- 2.20.1