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Huacai Chen 04718ab5db init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 
commit e416f0ed3c upstream.

BootLoaders (Grub, LILO, etc) may pass an identifier such as "BOOT_IMAGE=
/boot/vmlinuz-x.y.z" to kernel parameters.  But these identifiers are not
recognized by the kernel itself so will be passed to userspace.  However
user space init program also don't recognize it.

KEXEC/KDUMP (kexec-tools) may also pass an identifier such as "kexec" on
some architectures.

We cannot change BootLoader's behavior, because this behavior exists for
many years, and there are already user space programs search BOOT_IMAGE=
in /proc/cmdline to obtain the kernel image locations:

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-ab-recovery/blob/master/util.go
(search getBootOptions)
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-ab-recovery/blob/master/main.go
(search getKernelReleaseWithBootOption) So the the best way is handle
(ignore) it by the kernel itself, which can avoid such boot warnings (if
we use something like init=/bin/bash, bootloader identifier can even cause
a crash):

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-6.x root=/dev/sda3 ro console=tty
Unknown kernel command line parameters "BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-6.x", will be passed to user space.

[chenhuacai@loongson.cn: use strstarts()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815090120.1569947-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250721101343.3283480-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-10-19 16:23:13 +02:00
arch ARM: OMAP2+: pm33xx-core: ix device node reference leaks in amx3_idle_init 2025-10-19 16:23:11 +02:00
block blk-crypto: fix missing blktrace bio split events 2025-10-19 16:23:12 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2025-04-25 10:44:04 +02:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:23:10 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: phy: rockchip-inno-csi-dphy: make power-domains non-required 2025-10-19 16:23:11 +02:00
drivers iio: xilinx-ams: Unmask interrupts after updating alarms 2025-10-19 16:23:13 +02:00
fs fs/ntfs3: Fix a resource leak bug in wnd_extend() 2025-10-19 16:23:13 +02:00
include scsi: libsas: Add sas_task_find_rq() 2025-10-19 16:23:07 +02:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:23:13 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: include dying ring in task_work "should cancel" state 2025-09-25 10:58:53 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:07:30 +01:00
kernel copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64) 2025-10-19 16:23:12 +02:00
lib minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression 2025-10-15 11:56:21 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area 2025-10-15 11:56:40 +02:00
net bridge: br_vlan_fill_forward_path_pvid: use br_vlan_group_rcu() 2025-10-19 16:23:09 +02:00
rust rust: module: place cleanup_module() in .exit.text section 2025-07-06 10:57:54 +02:00
samples ftrace/samples: Fix function size computation 2025-09-19 16:29:56 +02:00
scripts gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 2025-10-15 11:56:20 +02:00
security apparmor: use the condition in AA_BUG_FMT even with debug disabled 2025-08-28 16:26:01 +02:00
sound ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5651: Fix invalid quirk input mapping 2025-10-15 11:56:33 +02:00
tools tools build: Align warning options with perf 2025-10-19 16:23:09 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-06-27 11:07:25 +01:00
virt KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() 2024-06-27 13:46:21 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore 2024-10-17 15:21:15 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS sign-file,extract-cert: move common SSL helper functions to a header 2025-04-25 10:44:04 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.156 2025-10-15 11:56:41 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.