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SubjectRe: [PATCH] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
Hi!

> hi *real* hackers,

:-).

> it is a my first post to lkml and I hope that you will have not been
> ignored me if I have done some incorrect thing.
>
> In the short this patch has added a new chroot= kernel parameter which can be used
> to changing a chroot of an init process before it will has been runed.
> I use that for testing variouses distroes without making a separate partition but
> by copied a new root-fs to a new subdirectory on the my *base* filesystem.

Yes please. I was thinking about doing this long ago, but never got to
coding it.


> diff -urp linux-2.6.24-orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt linux-2.6.24/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> --- linux-2.6.24-orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-02-25 20:53:26.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.24/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-02-25 20:51:21.000000000 -0500
> @@ -381,6 +381,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
> Value can be changed at runtime via
> /selinux/checkreqprot.
>
> + chroot= [KNL] call chroot() for init proccess.
> +
> clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
> [Deprecated]
> Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
> diff -urp linux-2.6.24-orig/init/main.c linux-2.6.24/init/main.c
> --- linux-2.6.24-orig/init/main.c 2008-03-01 12:58:37.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.24/init/main.c 2008-02-25 20:36:06.000000000 -0500
> @@ -755,8 +755,22 @@ static void __init do_pre_smp_initcalls(
> spawn_softlockup_task();
> }
>
> +static void *chroot_str;
> +static int __init chroot_setup(char *str)
> +{
> + chroot_str = str;
> + return 1;
> +}
> +__setup("chroot=", chroot_setup);
> +
> static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)
> {
> + if(chroot_str) {

'if ('

> + if(sys_chroot(chroot_str) < 0)

here too.

> + printk("chroot=%s failed\n", chroot_str);
> + else
> + printk("chroot=%s successed\n",chroot_str);

And I do not think we want to printk in the success case.

Thanks,
Pavel
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