linux-kernel - Re: uml: using hostfs as rootfs is not working

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Message-ID: <20081121174426.GB23653@hack.voiplan.pt>
Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:44:26 +0000
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	jdike@...toit.com
Subject: Re: uml: using hostfs as rootfs is not working

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:32:16PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>Hi,
>

Hi, Jan!


>
>as per Documentation/uml/*txt, I issued the following to get a direct 
>hostfs:
>
>	./linux ubd0=/tftpboot/linux
>
>(/tftpboot/linux/sbin/init exists), but the UM kernel only gives:
>
>Failed to open '/home/tftpboot/linux', errno = 21


I think this error comes from arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c::ubd_open_dev()


>ubda: Can't open "/home/tftpboot/linux": errno = 21

This is from the caller: ubd_open().

ubd_open_dev() calls open_ubd_file() to open the ubd device, which, in
turn, calls os_open_file() which is a wrapper of open64().

And errno 21 should be EISDIR, for open(), which means we invoked it
with a writing operation, probably O_RDWR...

So I think there must be something wrong in the code, writing to a
directory is suspicious...

I will try to check it.

Thank you!

-- 
"Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy."

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