Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 5 authors, 2019-02-14

Re: [PATCH 2/8] initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails

From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Date: 2019-02-14 13:52:03
Also in: linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml

On 13/02/2019 17:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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.
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. FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 init/initramfs.c | 14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 7cea802d00ef..1cba6bbeeb75 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -610,13 +610,12 @@ 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",
@@ -630,7 +629,6 @@ 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)
 			printk(KERN_EMERG "Initramfs unpacking failed: %s\n", err);
 			clean_rootfs();
 		}
-		free_initrd();
 #endif
 	}
+	free_initrd();
 	flush_delayed_fput();
 	return 0;
 }

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