14 Dec, 2014
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The kernel has support for (nearly) every compression algorithm known to
man, each to handle some particular microscopic niche.Unfortunately all of these always get compiled in if you want to support
INITRDs, and can be only disabled when CONFIG_EXPERT is set.I don't see why I need to set EXPERT just to properly configure the initrd
compression algorithms, and not always include every possible algorithmUsually the initrd is just compressed with gzip anyways, at least that's
true on all distributions I use.Remove the dependencies for initrd compression on CONFIG_EXPERT.
Make the various options just default y, which should be good enough to
not break any previous configuration.Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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Commit 9ba4bcb64589 ("initramfs: read CONFIG_RD_ variables for initramfs
compression") removed the users of the various INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_*
Kconfig symbols. So since v3.13 the entire "Built-in initramfs
compression mode" choice is a set of knobs connected to nothing. The
entire choice can safely be removed.Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle
Cc: P J P
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Nov, 2013
2 commits
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When expert configuration option(CONFIG_EXPERT) is enabled, menuconfig
offers a choice of compression algorithm to compress initial ramfs image;
This choice is stored into CONFIG_RD_* variables. But usr/Makefile uses
earlier INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_* macros to build initial ramfs file. Since
none of them is defined, resulting 'initramfs_data.cpio' file remains
un-compressed.This patch updates the Makefile to use CONFIG_RD_* variables and adds
support for LZ4 compression algorithm. Also updates the
'gen_initramfs_list.sh' script to check whether a selected compression
command is accessible or not. And fall-back to default gzip(1)
compression when it is not.Signed-off-by: P J P
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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getenv() may return NULL if given environment variable does not exist
which leads to NULL dereference when calling strncat.Besides that, the environment variable name was copied to a temporary
env_var buffer, but this copying can be avoided by simply using the input
string.Lastly, the whole loop can be greatly simplified by using the snprintf
function instead of the playing with strncat.By the way, the current implementation allows a recursive variable
expansion, as in:$ echo 'out ${A} out ' | A='a ${B} a' B=b /tmp/a
out a b a outI'm assuming this is just a side effect and not a conscious decision
(especially as this may lead to infinite loop), but I didn't want to
change this behaviour without consulting.If the current behaviour is deamed incorrect, I'll be happy to send
a patch without recursive processing.Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Cc: Jesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Add support for extracting LZ4-compressed kernel images, as well as
LZ4-compressed ramdisk images in the kernel boot process.Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Florian Fainelli
Cc: Yann Collet
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Nov, 2012
1 commit
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Just a completely trivial patch to remove a completely redundant blank
line from usr/gen_init_cpio.cSigned-off-by: Jesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
26 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Fix possible overflow of the buffer used for expanding environment
variables when building file list.In the extremely unlikely case of an attacker having control over the
environment variables visible to gen_init_cpio, control over the
contents of the file gen_init_cpio parses, and gen_init_cpio was built
without compiler hardening, the attacker can gain arbitrary execution
control via a stack buffer overflow.$ cat usr/crash.list
file foo ${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG} 0755 0 0
$ BIG=$(perl -e 'print "A" x 4096;') ./usr/gen_init_cpio usr/crash.list
*** buffer overflow detected ***: ./usr/gen_init_cpio terminatedThis also replaces the space-indenting with tabs.
Patch based on existing fix extracted from grsecurity.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: Brad Spengler
Cc: PaX Team
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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There have been new compression algorithms added without updating nearby
relevant descriptive text that refers to (a) the number of compression
algorithms and (b) the most recent one. Fix these inconsistencies.Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Reported-by:
Cc: Lasse Collin
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf
Cc: Alain Knaff
Cc: Albin Tonnerre
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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gen_init_cpio gets the current time and uses it for each symlink,
special file, and directory. Grab the current time once and make it
possible to override it with the KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP variable for
reproducible builds.Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
21 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Robin Holt
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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This implements the API defined in which is
used for kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression. This patch together
with the first patch is enough for XZ-compressed initramfs and initrd;
XZ-compressed kernel will need arch-specific changes.The buffering requirements described in decompress_unxz.c are stricter
than with gzip, so the relevant changes should be done to the
arch-specific code when adding support for XZ-compressed kernel.
Similarly, the heap size in arch-specific pre-boot code may need to be
increased (30 KiB is enough).The XZ decompressor needs memmove(), memeq() (memcmp() == 0), and
memzero() (memset(ptr, 0, size)), which aren't available in all
arch-specific pre-boot environments. I'm including simple versions in
decompress_unxz.c, but a cleaner solution would naturally be nicer.Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Alain Knaff
Cc: Albin Tonnerre
Cc: Phillip Lougher
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
mkuboot.sh: Fail if mkimage is missing
gen_init_cpio: checkpatch fixes
gen_init_cpio: Avoid race between call to stat() and call to open()
modpost: Fix address calculation in reloc_location()
Make fixdep error handling more explicit
checksyscalls: Fix stand-alone usage
modpost: Put .zdebug* section on white list
kbuild: fix interaction of CONFIG_IKCONFIG and KCONFIG_CONFIG
kbuild: export linux/{a.out,kvm,kvm_para}.h on headers_install_all
kbuild: introduce HDR_ARCH_LIST for headers_install_all
headers_install: check exit status of unifdef
gen_init_cpio: remove leading `/' from file names
scripts/genksyms: fix header usage
fixdep: use hash table instead of a single array
06 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Cc: Jesper Juhl
Cc: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
29 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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In usr/gen_init_cpio.c::cpio_mkfile() a call to stat() is made based on
pathname, subsequently the file is open()'ed and then the value of the
initial stat() call is used to allocate a buffer. This is not safe since
the file may change between the call to stat() and the call to open().
Safer to just open() the file and then do fstat() using the filedescriptor
returned by open.Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
15 Dec, 2010
1 commit
02 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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When we extracted the generated cpio archive using "cpio -id" command,
it complained,cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
var/run
cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
var/lib
cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
var/lib/miscIt is worse with the latest "cpio" or "pax", which tries to overwrite
the host file system with the leading '/'.So the leading '/' of file names should be removed. This is consistent
with the initramfs come with major distributions such as Fedora or
Debian, etc.Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
01 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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Define the __initramfs_size variable using VMLINUX_SYMBOL() to take care
of symbol-prefixed architectures, for example, blackfin.Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner ,
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
[mmarek: leave out Makefile change, since d63f6d1 already takes care of the
SYMBOL_PREFIX define]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
31 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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Commit ffe8018c3424 ("initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation") broke
32-bit big-endian arches like (on ARAnyM):VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(3,1)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
fe80 1059408 nfhd8 (driver?)
fe81 921600 nfhd8p1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000nfhd8p1
fe82 137807 nfhd8p2 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000nfhd8p2
0200 3280 fd0 (driver?)
0201 3280 fd1 (driver?)
0300 1059408 hda driver: ide-gd
0301 921600 hda1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000hda1
0302 137807 hda2 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000hda2
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)As pointed out by Kerstin Jonsson , this
is due to CONFIG_32BIT not being defined, so the initramfs size field is
done as a 64-bit quad. On little-endian (like x86) this doesn matter,
but on a big-endian machine the 32-bit reads will see the (zero) high
bits.Only mips, s390, and score set CONFIG_32BIT for 32-bit builds, so fix it for
all other 32-bit arches by inverting the logic and testing for CONFIG_64BIT,
which should be defined on all 64-bit arches.Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
[ I think we should just make it "u64" on all architectures and get
rid of the whole #ifdef CONFIG_xxBIT - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs
initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants
scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings
scripts/setlocalversion: update comment
kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules
kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree)
scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes
kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
29 Sep, 2010
2 commits
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The size of a built-in initramfs is calculated in init/initramfs.c by
"__initramfs_end - __initramfs_start". Those symbols are defined in the
linker script include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:#define INIT_RAM_FS \
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_start) = .; \
*(.init.ramfs) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__initramfs_end) = .;If the initramfs file has an odd number of bytes, the "__initramfs_end"
symbol points to an odd address, for example, the symbols in the
System.map might look like:0000000000572000 T __initramfs_start
00000000005bcd05 T __initramfs_end :
540a9c: eb cf f0 78 00 24 stmg %r12,%r15,120(%r15),
540aa2: c0 10 00 01 8a af larl %r1,572000
540aa8: c0 c0 00 03 e1 2e larl %r12,5bcd04
(Instead of 5bcd05)
...
540abe: 1b c1 sr %r12,%r1To fix the problem, this patch introduces the global variable
__initramfs_size, which is calculated in the "usr/initramfs_data.S" file.
The populate_rootfs() function can then use the start marker of the
.init.ramfs section and the value of __initramfs_size for loading the
initramfs. Because the start marker and size is sufficient, the
__initramfs_end symbol is no longer needed and is removed.Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong
Acked-by: Michal Marek
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Remove initramfs_data.{lzo,lzma,gz,bz2}.S variants and use a common
implementation in initramfs_data.S. The common implementation expects the
file name of the initramfs to be defined in INITRAMFS_IMAGE.Change the Makefile to set the INITRAMFS_IMAGE define symbol according
to the selected compression method.Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner
Cc: WANG Cong
Acked-by: Michal Marek
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
23 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Deleted a word which apeared twice.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Sperber
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
28 May, 2010
1 commit
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Add the necessary parts to be enable the use of LZO-compressed initramfs
build into the kernel.Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre
Tested-by: Wu Zhangjin
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Tested-by: Russell King
Acked-by: Russell King
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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On compilers with security warnings enabled by default, we get:
usr/gen_init_cpio.c: In function ‘cpio_mkfile’:
usr/gen_init_cpio.c:357: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’,
declared with attribute warn_unused_resultSo check the return value and handle errors accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits)
Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section.
Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts.
arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
kbuild: add static to prototypes
kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails
kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
kbuild: echo the record_mcount command
gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews
kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names
checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper
checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it
ctags: usability fix
kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma
kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
kbuild: introduce ld-option
...Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
23 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Trevor Keith
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Sep, 2009
2 commits
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usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma are binary
files should be ignoredSigned-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Fix the Makefile comment since bzip2 is now supported.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
01 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: quiet Kconfig warning
It appears that Kconfig simply has no way to provide defaults for
entries that exist inside a conditionalized choice block.
Fortunately, it turns out we don't actually ever use
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE, so we can just drop it for
everything outside the choice block.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
29 Mar, 2009
4 commits
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Impact: Kconfig noise reduction, documentation
The default initramfs is so small that it makes no sense to worry
about the additional memory taken by not double-compressing it.
Therefore, don't bug the user with it.Also, improve the description of the option, which was downright
incorrect.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
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Impact: message formatting
Consistently spell LZMA in all capitals, since it (unlike gzip or
bzip2) is an acronym.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
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Impact: Kconfig clarification
Make it clear that the CONFIG_RD_* options are about what formats are
supported, not about what formats are actually being used.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
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Impact: reduce Kconfig noise
Move the options that control possible initramfs/initrd compressions
underneath CONFIG_EMBEDDED. The only impact of leaving these options
set to y is additional code in the init section of the kernel; there
is no reason to burden non-embedded users with these options.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
20 Feb, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: Avoids silent environment dependency
Make builtin initramfs compression an explicit configurable. The
previous version would pick a compression based on the binaries which
were installed on the system, which could lead to unexpected results.
It is now explicitly configured, and not having the appropriate
binaries installed on the build host is simply an error.Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
07 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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Impact: Resolves build failures in some configurations
Makes it possible to disable CONFIG_RD_GZIP . In that case, the
built-in initramfs will be compressed by whatever compressor is
available (bzip2 or lzma) or left uncompressed if none is available.It also removes a couple of warnings which occur when no ramdisk
compression at all is chosen.It also restores the select ZLIB_INFLATE in drivers/block/Kconfig
which somehow came missing. This is needed to activate compilation of
the stuff in zlib_deflate.Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin -
Impact: Partial resolution of build failure
Move the initrd/initramfs configuration options from
drivers/block/Kconfig to usr/Kconfig, since they do not and should not
depend on CONFIG_BLK_DEV. This fixes builds when CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
04 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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Modify gen_init_cpio so that lines that specify files can contain
what looks like a shell variable that's expanded during processing.For example:
file /sbin/kinit ${RFS_BASE}/usr/src/klibc/kinit/kinit 0755 0 0
given RFS_BASE is "/some/directory" in the environment
would be expanded to
file /sbin/kinit /some/directory/usr/src/klibc/kinit/kinit 0755 0 0
If several environment variables appear in a line, they are all expanded
with processing happening from left to right.
Undefined variables expand to a null string.
Syntax errors stop processing, letting the existing error handling
show the user offending line.This patch helps embedded folks who frequently create several
RFS directories and then switch between them as they're tuning
an initramfs.Signed-off-by: gene.sally@timesys.com
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
17 Jul, 2007
2 commits
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Treat an argument of "-" as meaning "read stdin for cpio files" so
gen_init_cpio can be piped into.Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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headers_install by default puts headers into usr/include/ .
They're auto-generated, so should be ignored.Same for *.orig, *.rej .
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds