On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 03:41:49AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 04:27:34PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 04:25:34PM +0200, Lukasz Stelmach wrote: > > > >> Can you comment out the call to d_genocide? It seems like for your > > > >> the fact that clean_rootfs didn't actually clean up was a feature and > > > >> not a bug. > > > >> > > > >> I guess the old, pre-2008 code also wouldn't have worked for you in > > > >> that case. > > > > > > > > Did you get a chance to try this? > > > > > > Indeed, commenting out d_genocide() helps. > > > > So given that people have relied on at least the basic device nodes > > like /dev/console to not go away since 2008, I wonder if we should just > > remove clean_rootfs entirely > > > > Linus, Al? > > First of all, d_genocide() is simply wrong here from VFS point of view. _IF_ > you want recursive removal, you need simple_recursive_remove(path.dentry, > NULL). > And it's a userland-visible change of behaviour. > > As for removal of clean_rootfs()... FWIW, the odds of an image that would > eventually fail accidentally getting past the signature mismatch check are > fairly low. I've no idea what scenario the author of that thing used to have; > that would be Shaohua Li <shaohua...@intel.com>. Cc'd...
Shaohua is now at Facebook.
