Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753251Ab3IXBiM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:38:12 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.219.53]:33015 "EHLO mail-oa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752378Ab3IXBiL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:38:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:38:07 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix NULL pointer dereference while loading initramfs To: Andrew Morton Cc: P J P , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20130923124110.9b8aebd78c2b602255f1dc1f@linux-foundation.org> (from akpm@linux-foundation.org on Mon Sep 23 14:41:10 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1379986687.1974.63@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1590 Lines: 35 On 09/23/2013 02:41:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:33:53 +0530 (IST) P J P > wrote: > > > Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an > > initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly > > compressed initial ramdisk image. Because - $ make install - does > > not pass on the selected compression choice to the dracut(8) tool, > > which creates the initramfs file. dracut(8) generates the image > > with the default compression, ie. gzip(1). I've been building kernels, including with initramfs, and I don't have dracut(8) installed? In today's git: $ find . -type f | xargs grep -i dracut ./tools/testing/ktest/sample.conf:#POST_INSTALL = ssh user@target /sbin/dracut -f /boot/initramfs-test.img $KERNEL_VERSION ./tools/testing/ktest/examples/kvm.conf:# that uses dracut for its initfs. The POST_INSTALL will be executed ./tools/testing/ktest/examples/kvm.conf:POST_INSTALL = ${SSH} /sbin/dracut -f /boot/initramfs-test.img $KERNEL_VERSION ./Documentation/ABI/testing/evm: Documentation/keys-trusted-encrypted.txt. (A sample dracut > - Is anyone working on fixing up Kconfig/dracut(8) so the correct > decompression method is used? I've been messing with this area and maight be interested if I had any idea what this guy was talking about? Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/