linux-kernel - [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

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Message-ID: <20070607164003.24322.51086.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, trond.myklebust@....uio.no
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

Make NFS root work by creating a "/root" directory to satisfy the mount,
otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 init/do_mounts.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 46fe407..967b852 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ static void __init get_fs_names(char *page)
 
 static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char *fs, int flags, void *data)
 {
-	int err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data);
+	int err;
+
+	sys_mkdir("/root", 0755);
+	err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 

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