targeting to xenial and bionic since we need this SRUed for Ubuntu Core
installs.
** Description changed:
in Ubuntu Core we default to using panic=-1 on the kernel command line
(documented at [1]) to speed up the auto-rollback mechanism of the
- kernel. on a kernel level this works just fine and teh system reboots
+ kernel. on a kernel level this works just fine and the system reboots
immediately ...
when in the initramfs during boot and a panic occurs, no reboot happens
at all, the initrd spawns a shell regardless of the panic= value ...
this is caused by a filter in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init
- panic=*)
- panic="${x#panic=}"
- case ${panic} in
- *[![:digit:].]*)
- panic=
- ;;
- esac
- ;;
+ panic=*)
+ panic="${x#panic=}"
+ case ${panic} in
+ *[![:digit:].]*)
+ panic=
+ ;;
+ esac
+ ;;
this function only lets positive values through, else panic= simply gets
unset
the panic() function itself is also not capable of handling negative
values, it has a sleep call that interprets negative values as
- commandline options instead of simply ignoring a negative sleep time
- [2].
+ commandline options instead of simply ignoring a negative sleep time [2]
+ (line 11).
the filter in the init script should allow the -1 value (to comply with
the kernel documentation and behaviour) and the panic() function should
properly skip the sleep call when a negative value for panic= is set.
[1]
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.17/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt#L2931
[2] https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/mswD8Cd869/
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panic=-1 is completely ignored by the initrd causing unexpected
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