[PATCH] initramfs: clean old path before creating a hardlink

[Li Zhijian]

Previously, sys_link() will fail due to the new path is already existed.
this case ofen appears when we use a concated initrd, below is an
sample:

1) prepare a basic rootfs, it contains a regular files rc.local
lizhijian@:~/yocto-tiny-i386-2016-04-22$ cat etc/rc.local
 #!/bin/sh
 echo "Running /etc/rc.local..."
yocto-tiny-i386-2016-04-22$ find . | sed 's,^\./,,' | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -n -9 >../rootfs.cgz

2) create a extra initrd which also includes a etc/rc.local
lizhijian@:~/lkp-x86_64/etc$ echo "append initrd" >rc.local
lizhijian@:~/lkp/lkp-x86_64/etc$ cat rc.local
append initrd
lizhijian@:~/lkp/lkp-x86_64/etc$ ln rc.local rc.local.hardlink
append initrd
lizhijian@:~/lkp/lkp-x86_64/etc$ stat rc.local rc.local.hardlink
  File: 'rc.local'
  Size: 14        	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 801h/2049d	Inode: 11296086    Links: 2
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1002/lizhijian)   Gid: ( 1002/lizhijian)
Access: 2018-11-15 16:08:28.654464815 +0800
Modify: 2018-11-15 16:07:57.514903210 +0800
Change: 2018-11-15 16:08:24.180228872 +0800
 Birth: -
  File: 'rc.local.hardlink'
  Size: 14        	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 801h/2049d	Inode: 11296086    Links: 2
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1002/lizhijian)   Gid: ( 1002/lizhijian)
Access: 2018-11-15 16:08:28.654464815 +0800
Modify: 2018-11-15 16:07:57.514903210 +0800
Change: 2018-11-15 16:08:24.180228872 +0800
 Birth: -

lizhijian@:~/lkp/lkp-x86_64$ find . | sed 's,^\./,,' | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -n -9 >../rc-local.cgz
lizhijian@:~/lkp/lkp-x86_64$ gzip -dc ../rc-local.cgz | cpio -t
.
etc
etc/rc.local.hardlink <<< it will be extracted first at this initrd
etc/rc.local

3) concate 2 initrds and boot
lizhijian@:~/lkp$ cat rootfs.cgz rc-local.cgz >concate-initrd.cgz
lizhijian@:~/lkp$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -enable-kvm -cpu host -smp 1 -m 1024 -kernel ~/lkp/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage -append "console=ttyS0 earlyprint=ttyS0 ignore_loglevel" -initrd ./concate-initr.cgz -serial stdio -nodefaults

In this case, sys_link(2) will fail and return -EEXIST, so we can only
get the rc.local at rootfs.cgz instead of rc-local.cgz

CC: Philip Li <philip.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 init/initramfs.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 6405577..381fd4c 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -291,12 +291,16 @@ static int __init do_reset(void)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static void __init clean_path(char *path, umode_t fmode);
+
 static int __init maybe_link(void)
 {
 	if (nlink >= 2) {
 		char *old = find_link(major, minor, ino, mode, collected);
-		if (old)
+		if (old) {
+			clean_path(collected, 0);
 			return (ksys_link(old, collected) < 0) ? -1 : 1;
+		}
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
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