Dan Williams: mdmon: exec(2) when the switchroot argument is not "/"

[Martin F. Krafft]

Module: mdadm
Branch: upstream
Commit: b928b5a0384e7181425a282a0586cbbb3c85fbc3
URL:    http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commit;h=b928b5a0384e7181425a282a0586cbbb3c85fbc3

Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 13 17:08:33 2009 -0700

mdmon: exec(2) when the switchroot argument is not "/"

Try to execute mdmon from the target namespace.  When used for initramfs
handovers we need to drop all references to the initramfs filesystem for
that memory to be freed.

Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>


---

 mdmon.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mdmon.c b/mdmon.c
index 5f87e78..d3e8be5 100644
--- a/mdmon.c
+++ b/mdmon.c
@@ -369,6 +369,29 @@ int mdmon(char *devname, int devnum, int scan, char *switchroot)
 
 	dprintf("starting mdmon for %s in %s\n",
 		devname, switchroot ? : "/");
+
+	/* try to spawn mdmon instances from the target file system */
+	if (switchroot && strcmp(switchroot, "/") != 0) {
+		char path[1024];
+		pid_t pid;
+
+		sprintf(path, "%s/sbin/mdmon", switchroot);
+		switch (fork()) {
+		case 0:
+			execl(path, "mdmon", devname, NULL);
+			exit(1);
+		case -1:
+			return 1;
+		default:
+			pid = wait(&status);
+			if (pid > -1 && WIFEXITED(status) &&
+			    WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0)
+				return 0;
+			else
+				return 1;
+		}
+	}
+
 	mdfd = open_dev(devnum);
 	if (mdfd < 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "mdmon: %s: %s\n", devname,