initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
authorDavid Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Thu, 3 Jan 2019 23:28:31 +0000 (15:28 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 4 Jan 2019 21:13:47 +0000 (13:13 -0800)
Unpacking an external initrd may fail e.g.  not enough memory.  This
leads to an incomplete rootfs because some files might be extracted
already.  Fixed by cleaning the rootfs so the kernel is not using an
incomplete rootfs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181030151805.5519-1-david.engraf@sysgo.com
Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
init/initramfs.c

index fca899622937f48be0b47b25479fe3bff2252fcf..7cea802d00efa3bd7c676af35b7ab676dd1a00a6 100644 (file)
@@ -550,7 +550,6 @@ skip:
        initrd_end = 0;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
 #define BUF_SIZE 1024
 static void __init clean_rootfs(void)
 {
@@ -597,7 +596,6 @@ static void __init clean_rootfs(void)
        ksys_close(fd);
        kfree(buf);
 }
-#endif
 
 static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
 {
@@ -640,8 +638,10 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
                printk(KERN_INFO "Unpacking initramfs...\n");
                err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start,
                        initrd_end - initrd_start);
-               if (err)
+               if (err) {
                        printk(KERN_EMERG "Initramfs unpacking failed: %s\n", err);
+                       clean_rootfs();
+               }
                free_initrd();
 #endif
        }