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init: Support mounting root file systems over SMB
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Add a new virtual device named /dev/cifs (0xfe) to tell the kernel to
mount the root file system over the network by using SMB protocol.

cifs_root_data() will be responsible to retrieve the parsed
information of the new command-line option (cifsroot=) and then call
do_mount_root() with the appropriate mount options for cifs.ko.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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pcacjr authored and davem330 committed Oct 2, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ static int match_dev_by_label(struct device *dev, const void *data)
* a colon.
* 9) PARTLABEL=<name> with name being the GPT partition label.
* MSDOS partitions do not support labels!
* 10) /dev/cifs represents Root_CIFS (0xfe)
*
* If name doesn't have fall into the categories above, we return (0,0).
* block_class is used to check if something is a disk name. If the disk
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res = Root_NFS;
if (strcmp(name, "nfs") == 0)
goto done;
res = Root_CIFS;
if (strcmp(name, "cifs") == 0)
goto done;
res = Root_RAM0;
if (strcmp(name, "ram") == 0)
goto done;
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}
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT

extern int cifs_root_data(char **dev, char **opts);

#define CIFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MIN 5
#define CIFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MAX 30
#define CIFSROOT_RETRY_MAX 5

static int __init mount_cifs_root(void)
{
char *root_dev, *root_data;
unsigned int timeout;
int try, err;

err = cifs_root_data(&root_dev, &root_data);
if (err != 0)
return 0;

timeout = CIFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MIN;
for (try = 1; ; try++) {
err = do_mount_root(root_dev, "cifs", root_mountflags,
root_data);
if (err == 0)
return 1;
if (try > CIFSROOT_RETRY_MAX)
break;

ssleep(timeout);
timeout <<= 1;
if (timeout > CIFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MAX)
timeout = CIFSROOT_TIMEOUT_MAX;
}
return 0;
}
#endif

#if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM) || defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD)
void __init change_floppy(char *fmt, ...)
{
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ROOT_DEV = Root_FD0;
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT
if (ROOT_DEV == Root_CIFS) {
if (mount_cifs_root())
return;

printk(KERN_ERR "VFS: Unable to mount root fs via SMB, trying floppy.\n");
ROOT_DEV = Root_FD0;
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD
if (MAJOR(ROOT_DEV) == FLOPPY_MAJOR) {
/* rd_doload is 2 for a dual initrd/ramload setup */
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