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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-04-28 11:34:33 +0930
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-04-28 11:48:34 +0930
commit51e158c12aca3c9ac63988611a97c05109b14dc9 (patch)
tree579ef4259a17200a77ec111c6a6ca082d43a368d /kernel/module.c
parent2ee41e62ba5b952e9d9fcba6f7079a0c608bb849 (diff)
downloadlinux-51e158c12aca3c9ac63988611a97c05109b14dc9.tar.bz2
param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
The kernel passes any args it doesn't need through to init, except it assumes anything containing '.' belongs to the kernel (for a module). This change means all users can clearly distinguish which arguments are for init. For example, the kernel uses debug ("dee-bug") to mean log everything to the console, where systemd uses the debug from the Scandinavian "day-boog" meaning "fail to boot". If a future versions uses argv[] instead of reading /proc/cmdline, this confusion will be avoided. eg: test 'FOO="this is --foo"' -- 'systemd.debug="true true true"' Gives: argv[0] = '/debug-init' argv[1] = 'test' argv[2] = 'systemd.debug=true true true' envp[0] = 'HOME=/' envp[1] = 'TERM=linux' envp[2] = 'FOO=this is --foo' Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 11869408f79b..66e4e0d260a9 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3193,6 +3193,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
{
struct module *mod;
long err;
+ char *after_dashes;
err = module_sig_check(info);
if (err)
@@ -3277,10 +3278,15 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
goto ddebug_cleanup;
/* Module is ready to execute: parsing args may do that. */
- err = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp,
- -32768, 32767, unknown_module_param_cb);
- if (err < 0)
+ after_dashes = parse_args(mod->name, mod->args, mod->kp, mod->num_kp,
+ -32768, 32767, unknown_module_param_cb);
+ if (IS_ERR(after_dashes)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(after_dashes);
goto bug_cleanup;
+ } else if (after_dashes) {
+ pr_warn("%s: parameters '%s' after `--' ignored\n",
+ mod->name, after_dashes);
+ }
/* Link in to syfs. */
err = mod_sysfs_setup(mod, info, mod->kp, mod->num_kp);