Re: [PATCH] chroot= as a new kernel parameter

[Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@gmail.com>]

Hi Andrew and other *real* hackers,

I have sent a *last* version of a patch which it has added a new kernel parameter chroot=
It were discusioned a *long time* on a lkml so I hope that it will has been applied.

Thanks,
Pawel 

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@gmail.com>

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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	2008-03-04 09:51:52.000000000 -0500
@@ -381,6 +381,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
 			Value can be changed at runtime via
 				/selinux/checkreqprot.
 	
+	chroot=		[KNL] change a root for init process.
+
 	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	2008-03-05 15:08:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -755,8 +755,20 @@ 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 (sys_chroot(chroot_str) < 0)
+			panic("chroot=%s failed\n", chroot_str);
+
 	argv_init[0] = init_filename;
 	kernel_execve(init_filename, argv_init, envp_init);
 }