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init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters
authorHuacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:13:43 +0000 (18:13 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:32:45 +0000 (17:32 -0700)
commite416f0ed3c500c05c55fb62ee62662717b1c7f71
tree85dca6bfc290a68fe9e6b41c3ddf5cf3ac5883d7
parentca78a04ce5c42b00addc063a7610a5ae12dafc39
init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters

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>
init/main.c