Christoph Hellwig 2551167636 initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails
[ Upstream commit 54c7a8916a ]

Patch series "initramfs tidyups".

I've spent some time chasing down behavior in initramfs and found
plenty of opportunity to improve the code.  A first stab on that is
contained in this series.

This patch (of 7):

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.

Steven said:

: 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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>	[arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>	[m68k]
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-06-15 11:54:01 +02:00
2019-06-11 12:20:57 +02:00

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