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authorPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2020-12-14 15:14:57 +0100
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2020-12-14 15:14:57 +0100
commit5f3b8d398601055f29f32986a94d55955cd48f09 (patch)
tree9d1ccae747f39c27ecaff8e23f8e760d996ae2ee /init
parentb031a684bfd01d633c79d281bd0cf11c2f834ada (diff)
parent3cffa06aeef7ece30f6b5ac0ea51f264e8fea4d0 (diff)
downloadlinux-5f3b8d398601055f29f32986a94d55955cd48f09.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'for-5.11-null-console' into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/main.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 20baced721ad..08cd3a52a7e8 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -1480,8 +1480,14 @@ void __init console_on_rootfs(void)
struct file *file = filp_open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0);
if (IS_ERR(file)) {
- pr_err("Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n");
- return;
+ pr_err("Warning: unable to open an initial console. Fallback to ttynull.\n");
+ register_ttynull_console();
+
+ file = filp_open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(file)) {
+ pr_err("Warning: Failed to add ttynull console. No stdin, stdout, and stderr for the init process!\n");
+ return;
+ }
}
init_dup(file);
init_dup(file);