Problem during /init execve

Rajat Sharma fs.rajat at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 12:26:24 EDT 2012


Does your kernel config set this option:
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y

And what is the state of CONFIG_AUDIT option? Do you need Kernel Audit
support in your environment?

-Rajat

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:42 PM, stl <st.lambert02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> it is for the VFS, ext2 is selected in my .config.
>
> Concerning the filesystem, if the boot hasn't crashed until the start of
> /init means
> that it is correclty mounted (i suppose)
> In addition, the kernel does not output the well known message:
> "warning: unable to open an initial console", this means that it is able to
> open the /dev/console.
>
> I used initramfs support in order to mount the VFS, by supplying a config
> file to
> CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE option.
>
> However, the getattr method has been initialized, but not the getxattr.
>
> Have you any idea  what  the problem could be?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> 2012/9/24 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi...
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM, stl <st.lambert02 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > What is the purpose of the inode->i_op->getxattr method?
>>
>> I think it has something related to extended attribute
>>
>> > During the boot of linux-2.6.37 on a new architecture, it crashes in the
>> > get_vfs_caps_from_disk() function because of the following security
>> > check,
>> > (in my case, this field is ot initialized).
>> >
>> > if (!inode || !inode->i_op->getxattr)
>> >           return -ENODATA;
>>
>> May I know, what's the filesystem type that code currently checks? And
>> are you sure that filesystem is completely ok?
>>
>> --
>> regards,
>>
>> Mulyadi Santosa
>> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>>
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>> training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
>
>
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