From 2bd3a997befc226ab4b504f05c5cbba305f3e0e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:53:19 -0800 Subject: init: Open /dev/console from rootfs To avoid potential problems with an empty /dev open /dev/console from rootfs instead of waiting to mount our root filesystem and mounting it there. This effectively guarantees that there will be a device node, and it won't be on a filesystem that we will ever unmount, so there are no issues with leaving /dev/console open and pinning the filesystem. This is actually more effective than automatically mounting devtmpfs on /dev because it removes removes the occasionally problematic assumption that /dev/console exists from the boot code. With this patch I was able to throw busybox on my /boot partition (which has no /dev directory) and boot into userspace without problems. The only possible negative consequence I can think of is that someone out there deliberately used did not use a character device that is major 5 minor 2 for /dev/console. Does anyone know of a situation in which that could make sense? Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'init/do_mounts_initrd.c') diff --git a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c index 614241b5200..2b108538d0d 100644 --- a/init/do_mounts_initrd.c +++ b/init/do_mounts_initrd.c @@ -30,11 +30,7 @@ static int __init do_linuxrc(void * shell) extern char * envp_init[]; sys_close(old_fd);sys_close(root_fd); - sys_close(0);sys_close(1);sys_close(2); sys_setsid(); - (void) sys_open("/dev/console",O_RDWR,0); - (void) sys_dup(0); - (void) sys_dup(0); return kernel_execve(shell, argv, envp_init); } -- cgit v1.2.3