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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2024-05-28 01:42:24 -0700
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-05-29 17:19:50 -0700
commitc3390677f6258748a91bf37b9bb21eab89f63b42 (patch)
tree7272920cf5f2417375a25ab3fcb8c3d7b5dc3a8f
parent544a74c32bcc2eff5f93b9f638f687170e7274e9 (diff)
netconsole: Do not shutdown dynamic configuration if cmdline is invalid
If a user provides an invalid netconsole configuration during boot time (e.g., specifying an invalid ethX interface), netconsole will be entirely disabled. Consequently, the user won't be able to create new entries in /sys/kernel/config/netconsole/ as that directory does not exist. Apart from misconfiguration, another issue arises when ethX is loaded as a module and the netconsole= line in the command line points to ethX, resulting in an obvious failure. This renders netconsole unusable, as /sys/kernel/config/netconsole/ will never appear. This is more annoying since users reconfigure (or just toggle) the configuratin later (see commit 5fbd6cdbe304b ("netconsole: Attach cmdline target to dynamic target")) Create /sys/kernel/config/netconsole/ even if the command line arguments are invalid, so, users can create dynamic entries in netconsole. Reported-by: Aijay Adams <aijay@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528084225.3215853-1-leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/netconsole.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index d7070dd4fe73..ab8a0623b1a1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -1262,6 +1262,8 @@ static int __init init_netconsole(void)
while ((target_config = strsep(&input, ";"))) {
nt = alloc_param_target(target_config, count);
if (IS_ERR(nt)) {
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC))
+ continue;
err = PTR_ERR(nt);
goto fail;
}