linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ubi: gluebi: Fix NULL pointer dereference caused by ftl notifier

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Message-ID: <296007365.252185.1718649153090.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:32:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To: Gagan Sidhu <broly@....com>
Cc: ZhaoLong Wang <wangzhaolong1@...wei.com>, 
	chengzhihao1 <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>, 
	dpervushin <dpervushin@...eddedalley.com>, 
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, 
	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>, 
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>, 
	yangerkun <yangerkun@...wei.com>, yi zhang <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ubi: gluebi: Fix NULL pointer dereference caused by
 ftl notifier

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Gagan Sidhu" <broly@....com>
>> AFAICT, this log line is not part of the mainline kernel.
> 
> this is mainline. it’s just not 6.x. it’s 4.14.

I've double checked and disagree.
This line comes from:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/generic/pending-4.14/480-mtd-set-rootfs-to-be-root-dev.patch;h=6cddaf01b75cb58cfb377f568f2c375af87e2f1b;hb=c3bd1321de1e0d814f5cfc4f494f6b2fb1f5133b

In recent OpenWRT kernels I see:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/generic/pending-5.15/493-ubi-set-ROOT_DEV-to-ubiblock-rootfs-if-unset.patch;h=266a6331c2acc0f7c17d9ac72f54659d31b56249;hb=HEAD

Looks like in recent versions the patch in question does *not* cause a regression.

>> (31, 12) would be mtdblock12.
>> How does your kernel know that mtdblock12 shall be the rootfs?
> 
> this is an openwrt approach: https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/filesystems (under
> “technical details”, third paragraph)
> 
> essentially there’s a feature they add to the kernel (via patch) where you can
> enable a feature that sets the root device based on the name of the partition.

So, this is all not mainline. :-/
 
> in this case as long as the volume within your ubi file contains the name
> “rootfs”, openwrt will follow it as it gets unpacked and set that as the
> rootdevice for you.

Thanks,
//richard