Re: [PATCH] do_mounts: fix not all available filesystems get tried during boot

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sun Apr 27 2014 - 07:04:28 EST


On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:37 PM, ÐÐÐÐÐÐ ÐÐÑÑÐÐ <plamen.sisi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While debugging a kernel panic with 3.14.1 it became clear that some
> changes made some filesystems mount routines return error codes other
> than 0, EACCES and EINVAL. Such return codes result in the kernel
> panicking without trying to mount root with all of the available
> filesystems, as can be seen in bugzilla entries 74901 and 74261.

What filesystems are these?

> Make mount_block_root continue trying other available filesystems by
> default, not only when the last tried returned EACCES or EINVAL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Plamen Petrov <plamen.sisi@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> init/do_mounts.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
> index 09ded58..a4abbdf 100644
> --- a/init/do_mounts.c
> +++ b/init/do_mounts.c
> @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ retry:
> case -EACCES:
> flags |= MS_RDONLY;
> goto retry;
> - case -EINVAL:
> + default:
> continue;
> }
> /*
> --
> 1.9.0
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Thanks,
//richard
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