On Thu 2020-11-12 10:45:46, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > On (20/11/12 09:17), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > On (20/11/11 14:54), Petr Mladek wrote: > > [..] > > > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c > > > index 130376ec10ba..24413c055a85 100644 > > > --- a/init/main.c > > > +++ b/init/main.c > > > @@ -1470,8 +1470,14 @@ 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(); > > > + > > > > A nit, this probably can be done in console_device() function. > > > > For several reasons: > > > > - we will get covered all the future cases when something other than > > console_on_rootfs() will filp_open("/dev/console")
Good point! My concern is that console_device might be called in "unclear" context. For example, it is called under tty_mutex in: + tty_open_by_driver() + tty_lookup_driver() + console_device() Also console_on_rootf() is likely the first code that would actually use the device. Well, there is spk_ttyio_initialise_ldisc() that calls tty_kopen(). I am a bit lazy to investigate whether it is called sooner or later. Anyway, it is accessibility code, so that there should be configured an accessibility console anyway. > And the existing ones (including user-space). For instance, > kernel/bpf/preload/iterators/iterators.c probably fails (?) > on systems with console= > > debug_fd = open("/dev/console", O_WRONLY | O_NOCTTY | O_CLOEXEC); > if (debug_fd < 0) > return 1; > > -ss This looks like an userspace tool, so it should get called after console_on_rootfs(). It might be my laziness. But I would prefer to go with this patchset. We could always improve it when anyone meet the problem. Best Regards, Petr