On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 22:33:18 -0400
Arvind Sankar [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 02:46:03PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 491f1cdb3105..113c8244e5f0 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c

@@ -142,6 +142,15 @@ static char *extra_command_line;
 /* Extra init arguments */
 static char *extra_init_args;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG
+/* Is bootconfig on command line? */
+static bool bootconfig_found;
+static bool initargs_found;
+#else
+# define bootconfig_found false
+# define initargs_found false
+#endif
+
 static char *execute_command;
 static char *ramdisk_execute_command;
 

@@ -336,17 +345,32 @@ u32 boot_config_checksum(unsigned char *p, u32 size)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int __init bootconfig_params(char *param, char *val,
+				    const char *unused, void *arg)
+{
+	if (strcmp(param, "bootconfig") == 0) {
+		bootconfig_found = true;
+	} else if (strcmp(param, "--") == 0) {
+		initargs_found = true;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+

I came across this as I was poking around some of the command line
parsing. AFAICT, initargs_found will never be set to true here, because
parse_args handles "--" itself by immediately returning: it doesn't
invoke the callback for it. So you'd instead have to check the return of
parse_args("bootconfig"...) to detect the initargs_found case.

Oops, good catch!
Does this fixes the problem?

From b078e8b02ad54aea74f8c3645fc11dd3a1cdc1e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 23:57:29 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] bootconfig: Fix to find the initargs correctly

Since the parse_args() stops parsing at '--', bootconfig_params()
will never get the '--' as param and initargs_found never be true.
In the result, if we pass some init arguments via the bootconfig,
those are always appended to the kernel command line with '--'
and user will see double '--'.

To fix this correctly, check the return value of parse_args()
and set initargs_found true if the return value is not an error
but a valid address.

Fixes: f61872bb58a1 ("bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and '--'")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Arvind Sankar <redacted>
Suggested-by: Arvind Sankar <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
 init/main.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 0ead83e86b5a..627f9230dbe8 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c

@@ -387,8 +387,6 @@ static int __init bootconfig_params(char *param, char *val,
 {
 	if (strcmp(param, "bootconfig") == 0) {
 		bootconfig_found = true;
-	} else if (strcmp(param, "--") == 0) {
-		initargs_found = true;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }

@@ -399,19 +397,23 @@ static void __init setup_boot_config(const char *cmdline)
 	const char *msg;
 	int pos;
 	u32 size, csum;
-	char *data, *copy;
+	char *data, *copy, *err;
 	int ret;
 
 	/* Cut out the bootconfig data even if we have no bootconfig option */
 	data = get_boot_config_from_initrd(&size, &csum);
 
 	strlcpy(tmp_cmdline, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
-	parse_args("bootconfig", tmp_cmdline, NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
-		   bootconfig_params);
+	err = parse_args("bootconfig", tmp_cmdline, NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
+			 bootconfig_params);
 
-	if (!bootconfig_found)
+	if (IS_ERR(err) || !bootconfig_found)
 		return;
 
+	/* parse_args() stops at '--' and returns an address */
+	if (!IS_ERR(err) && err)
+		initargs_found = true;
+
 	if (!data) {
 		pr_err("'bootconfig' found on command line, but no bootconfig found\n");
 		return;

-- 
2.25.1