linux-stable.git/init/do_mounts_initrd.c, branch v5.8.2

x86/setup: Add an initrdmem= option to specify initrd physical address

2020-04-27T07:28:16+00:00

Add the initrdmem option:

initrdmem=ss[KMG],nn[KMG]

which is used to specify the physical address of the initrd, almost
always an address in FLASH. Also add code for x86 to use the existing
phys_init_start and phys_init_size variables in the kernel.

This is useful in cases where a kernel and an initrd is placed in FLASH,
but there is no firmware file system structure in the FLASH.

One such situation occurs when unused FLASH space on UEFI systems has
been reclaimed by, e.g., taking it from the Management Engine. For
example, on many systems, the ME is given half the FLASH part; not only
is 2.75M of an 8M part unused; but 10.75M of a 16M part is unused. This
space can be used to contain an initrd, but need to tell Linux where it
is.

This space is "raw": due to, e.g., UEFI limitations: it can not be added
to UEFI firmware volumes without rebuilding UEFI from source or writing
a UEFI device driver. It can be referenced only as a physical address
and size.

At the same time, if a kernel can be "netbooted" or loaded from GRUB or
syslinux, the option of not using the physical address specification
should be available.

Then, it is easy to boot the kernel and provide an initrd; or boot the
the kernel and let it use the initrd in FLASH. In practice, this has
proven to be very helpful when integrating Linux into FLASH on x86.

Hence, the most flexible and convenient path is to enable the initrdmem
command line option in a way that it is the last choice tried.

For example, on the DigitalLoggers Atomic Pi, an image into FLASH can be
burnt in with a built-in command line which includes:

initrdmem=0xff968000,0x200000

which specifies a location and size.

[ bp: Massage commit message, make it passive. ]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP6exYLK11rhreX=6QPyDQmW7wPHsKNEFtXE47pjx41xS6O7-A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426011021.1cskg0AGd%akpm@linux-foundation.org

init: unify opening /dev/console as stdin/stdout/stderr

2019-12-12T17:58:24+00:00

Merge the two instances where /dev/console is opened as
stdin/stdout/stderr.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

initrd: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()

2019-12-12T13:50:03+00:00

All three calls to ksys_mount() in initrd-related kernel code can
be switched over to do_mount():
- the first and third arguments are const strings in the kernel,
  and do not need to be copied over from userspace;
- the fifth argument is NULL, and therefore no page needs to be,
  copied over from userspace;
- the second and fourth argument are passed through anyway.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2019-01-05T21:25:58+00:00

Pull vfs mount API prep from Al Viro:
 "Mount API prereqs.

  Mostly that's LSM mount options cleanups. There are several minor
  fixes in there, but nothing earth-shattering (leaks on failure exits,
  mostly)"

* 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (27 commits)
  mount_fs: suppress MAC on MS_SUBMOUNT as well as MS_KERNMOUNT
  smack: rewrite smack_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  smack: get rid of match_token()
  smack: take the guts of smack_parse_opts_str() into a new helper
  LSM: new method: ->sb_add_mnt_opt()
  selinux: rewrite selinux_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  selinux: regularize Opt_... names a bit
  selinux: switch away from match_token()
  selinux: new helper - selinux_add_opt()
  LSM: bury struct security_mnt_opts
  smack: switch to private smack_mnt_opts
  selinux: switch to private struct selinux_mnt_opts
  LSM: hide struct security_mnt_opts from any generic code
  selinux: kill selinux_sb_get_mnt_opts()
  LSM: turn sb_eat_lsm_opts() into a method
  nfs_remount(): don't leak, don't ignore LSM options quietly
  btrfs: sanitize security_mnt_opts use
  selinux; don't open-code a loop in sb_finish_set_opts()
  LSM: split ->sb_set_mnt_opts() out of ->sb_kern_mount()
  new helper: security_sb_eat_lsm_opts()
  ...

Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux

2018-12-29T04:08:34+00:00

Pull Devicetree updates from Rob Herring:
 "The biggest highlight here is the start of using json-schema for DT
  bindings. Being able to validate bindings has been discussed for years
  with little progress.

   - Initial support for DT bindings using json-schema language. This is
     the start of converting DT bindings from free-form text to a
     structured format.

   - Reworking of initrd address initialization. This moves to using the
     phys address instead of virt addr in the DT parsing code. This
     rework was motivated by CONFIG_DEV_BLK_INITRD causing unnecessary
     rebuilding of lots of files.

   - Fix stale phandle entries in phandle cache

   - DT overlay validation improvements. This exposed several memory
     leak bugs which have been fixed.

   - Use node name and device_type helper functions in DT code

   - Last remaining conversions to using %pOFn printk specifier instead
     of device_node.name directly

   - Create new common RTC binding doc and move all trivial RTC devices
     out of trivial-devices.txt.

   - New bindings for Freescale MAG3110 magnetometer, Cadence Sierra
     PHY, and Xen shared memory

   - Update dtc to upstream version v1.4.7-57-gf267e674d145"

* tag 'devicetree-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (68 commits)
  of: __of_detach_node() - remove node from phandle cache
  of: of_node_get()/of_node_put() nodes held in phandle cache
  gpio-omap.txt: add reg and interrupts properties
  dt-bindings: mrvl,intc: fix a trivial typo
  dt-bindings: iio: magnetometer: add dt-bindings for freescale mag3110
  dt-bindings: Convert trivial-devices.txt to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: mrvl: amend Browstone compatible string
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert Tegra board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert ZTE board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Add missing Xilinx boards
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert Xilinx board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert VIA board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert ST STi board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert SPEAr board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert CSR SiRF board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert QCom board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert TI nspire board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert TI davinci board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert Calxeda board/soc bindings to json-schema
  dt-bindings: arm: Convert Altera board/soc bindings to json-schema
  ...

vfs: Suppress MS_* flag defs within the kernel unless explicitly enabled

2018-12-20T16:32:56+00:00

Only the mount namespace code that implements mount(2) should be using the
MS_* flags.  Suppress them inside the kernel unless uapi/linux/mount.h is
included.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Reviewed-by: David Howells

arch: Move initrd= parsing into do_mounts_initrd.c

2018-11-26T21:50:45+00:00

ARC, ARM, ARM64 and Unicore32 are all capable of parsing the "initrd="
command line parameter to allow specifying the physical address and size
of an initrd. Move that parsing into init/do_mounts_initrd.c such that
we no longer duplicate that logic.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring

arch: Make phys_initrd_start and phys_initrd_size global variables

2018-11-26T21:50:02+00:00

Make phys_initrd_start and phys_initrd_size global variables declared in
init/do_mounts_initrd.c such that we can later have generic code in
drivers/of/fdt.c populate those variables for us.

This requires both the ARM and unicore32 implementations to be properly
guarded against CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD, and also initialize the variables
to the expected default values (unicore32).

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring

block: remove dead elevator code

2018-11-07T20:42:32+00:00

This removes a bunch of core and elevator related code. On the core
front, we remove anything related to queue running, draining,
initialization, plugging, and congestions. We also kill anything
related to request allocation, merging, retrieval, and completion.

Remove any checking for single queue IO schedulers, as they no
longer exist. This means we can also delete a bunch of code related
to request issue, adding, completion, etc - and all the SQ related
ops and helpers.

Also kill the load_default_modules(), as all that did was provide
for a way to load the default single queue elevator.

Tested-by: Ming Lei 
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

init/: remove ineffective sparse disabling

2018-08-22T17:52:49+00:00

Sparse checking used to be disabled on init/do_mounts.c and a few related
files because "Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the
arguments to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers".

However since 28128c61e ("kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid
missed struct attributes") the checks are, in fact, not disabled anymore
because of the more early include of "linux/compiler_types.h"

So remove the now ineffective #undefery that was done to disable these
warnings, as well as the associated comment.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180617115355.53799-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck 
Cc: Dominik Brodowski 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds