Merge branch 'for-5.11-null-console' into for-linus

[thirdparty/linux.git] / init / main.c

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 20baced721ad44c5cb08e016f955388bbd27ceb9..08cd3a52a7e8d7e38117e32640666af947f5f98f 100644 (file)
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -1480,8 +1480,14 @@ void __init console_on_rootfs(void)
        struct file *file = filp_open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0);
 
        if (IS_ERR(file)) {
-               pr_err("Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n");
-               return;
+               pr_err("Warning: unable to open an initial console. Fallback to ttynull.\n");
+               register_ttynull_console();
+
+               file = filp_open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0);
+               if (IS_ERR(file)) {
+                       pr_err("Warning: Failed to add ttynull console. No stdin, stdout, and stderr for the init process!\n");
+                       return;
+               }
        }
        init_dup(file);
        init_dup(file);