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Commit 0bb6fcc1 authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] pivot_root() circular reference fix

Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857



When pivot_root is called from an init script in an initramfs environment,
it causes a circular reference in the mount tree.

The cause of this is that pivot_root() is not prepared to handle pivoting
an unattached mount.  In an initramfs environment, rootfs is the root of
the namespace, and so it is not attached.

This patch fixes this and related problems, by returning -EINVAL if either
the current root or the new root is detached.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent deac66ae
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