Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | [URGENT FIX] Re: kernel panic with initrd | Date | Fri, 7 Jun 1996 18:20:54 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > There is a bug somewhere in the initrd stuff. [...]
Indeed - I forgot to run fs_may_mount, which removes stale inodes as a side-effect. Here's a patch to fix it (for pre-2.0.14):
--- linux/fs/super.c.orig Fri Jun 7 18:08:12 1996 +++ linux/fs/super.c Fri Jun 7 18:12:18 1996 @@ -1040,6 +1040,10 @@ old_root = current->fs->root; old_pwd = current->fs->pwd; old_root_dev = ROOT_DEV; + if (!fs_may_mount(new_root_dev)) { + printk(KERN_CRIT "New root is busy. Staying in initrd.\n"); + return -EBUSY; + } ROOT_DEV = new_root_dev; do_mount_root(); old_fs = get_fs(); - Werner
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