On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 02:25:16AM -0500, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> When creating at runtime a newc initrd via arguments to initrd with "newc:"
> prefixes, only emit a directory path record once. The original code
> intended to do that by bailing out of emiting the record when the record
> to be created matches an existing record. However, this does not happen
> because grub_memcmp() is improperly checked.
>
> Generating duplicate newc directory records does not cause any problems
> because the linux unpacker will skip it once it sees the directory already
> exists. This fix saves a little processing and makes the generated newc
> cpio archive a little smaller.
>
> Fixes: 92750e4c60 (Add ability to generate newc additions on runtime.)
> Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <developm...@efficientek.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>

Daniel

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