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init/initramfs_test: wait_for_initramfs() before running
authorJia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Tue, 19 May 2026 09:39:37 +0000 (09:39 +0000)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Wed, 27 May 2026 13:11:02 +0000 (15:11 +0200)
commitec3f4e0443a61e68092ac07111f16dd4ca89ddb4
treece13b73c46a38d426789e971066a3f1828667de1
parent988c918b812eef5623d44cf758857f28ee050570
init/initramfs_test: wait_for_initramfs() before running

initramfs_test_extract() and friends call unpack_to_rootfs() from a
kunit kthread while do_populate_rootfs() may still be running
asynchronously from rootfs_initcall. unpack_to_rootfs() keeps its
parser state in module-static variables (victim, byte_count, state,
this_header, header_buf, name_buf, ...), so the two writers corrupt
each other.

On arm64 v7.0-rc5+ this oopses early in boot:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff80018f9f0ffc
  pc : do_reset+0x3c/0x98
  Call trace:
   do_reset
   initramfs_test_extract
   kunit_try_run_case
  Initramfs unpacking failed: junk within compressed archive

do_reset() faults because 'victim' was overwritten by the boot-time
unpacker; the boot unpacker meanwhile logs the bogus "junk within
compressed archive" on the real initrd because the test wrecked its
state machine.

Add a .suite_init callback that calls wait_for_initramfs() so the async
unpack is quiescent before the first case runs. suite_init runs once per
suite rather than before every individual test case.

Fixes: 83c0b27266ec ("initramfs_test: kunit tests for initramfs unpacking")
Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519093937.1064628-1-justin.he@arm.com
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
init/initramfs_test.c