Commit c3390677 authored by Breno Leitao's avatar Breno Leitao Committed by Jakub Kicinski

netconsole: Do not shutdown dynamic configuration if cmdline is invalid

If a user provides an invalid netconsole configuration during boot time
(e.g., specifying an invalid ethX interface), netconsole will be
entirely disabled. Consequently, the user won't be able to create new
entries in /sys/kernel/config/netconsole/ as that directory does not
exist.

Apart from misconfiguration, another issue arises when ethX is loaded as
a module and the netconsole= line in the command line points to ethX,
resulting in an obvious failure. This renders netconsole unusable, as
/sys/kernel/config/netconsole/ will never appear. This is more annoying
since users reconfigure (or just toggle) the configuratin later (see
commit 5fbd6cdb ("netconsole: Attach cmdline target to dynamic
target"))

Create /sys/kernel/config/netconsole/ even if the command line arguments
are invalid, so, users can create dynamic entries in netconsole.
Reported-by: default avatarAijay Adams <aijay@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528084225.3215853-1-leitao@debian.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 544a74c3
......@@ -1262,6 +1262,8 @@ static int __init init_netconsole(void)
while ((target_config = strsep(&input, ";"))) {
nt = alloc_param_target(target_config, count);
if (IS_ERR(nt)) {
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC))
continue;
err = PTR_ERR(nt);
goto fail;
}
......
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