[PATCH] fix for idiocy in mount_root cleanups.

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 8 Dec 2001 06:40:49 -0500 (EST)


Grr... OK, that should be a lesson - never do obvious change
just before sending a patch.

Change in question was s/do_mount/mount/. Which is almost
the same thing, except for one little detail: mount(2) in case of
error returns -1 and stores the error in errno. do_mount(9), OTOH...

IOW, please apply the following and pass me a brown paperbag ;-/

--- C1-pre7/init/do_mounts.c Fri Dec 7 20:48:43 2001
+++ linux/init/do_mounts.c Sat Dec 8 06:29:20 2001
@@ -351,8 +351,9 @@
mount("devfs", ".", "devfs", 0, NULL);
retry:
for (p = fs_names; *p; p += strlen(p)+1) {
- err = mount(name,"/root",p,root_mountflags,root_mount_data);
- switch (err) {
+ errno = 0;
+ mount(name,"/root",p,root_mountflags,root_mount_data);
+ switch (-errno) {
case 0:
goto done;
case -EACCES:

-
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