linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13 34/46] fs/proc/proc_devtree.c: remove empty /proc/device-tree when no openfirmware exists.

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Message-Id: <20140328173139.299972241@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:32:18 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 34/46] fs/proc/proc_devtree.c: remove empty /proc/device-tree when no openfirmware exists.

3.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>

commit c1d867a54d426b45da017fbe8e585f8a3064ce8d upstream.

Distribution kernels might want to build in support for /proc/device-tree
for kernels that might end up running on hardware that doesn't support
openfirmware.  This results in an empty /proc/device-tree existing.
Remove it if the OFW root node doesn't exist.

This situation actually confuses grub2, resulting in install failures.
grub2 sees the /proc/device-tree and picks the wrong install target cf.
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/annotate/4300/util/grub-install.in#L311
grub should be more robust, but still, leaving an empty proc dir seems
pointless.

Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818378.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/proc/proc_devtree.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ void __init proc_device_tree_init(void)
 		return;
 	root = of_find_node_by_path("/");
 	if (root == NULL) {
+		remove_proc_entry("device-tree", NULL);
 		pr_debug("/proc/device-tree: can't find root\n");
 		return;
 	}


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