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    init: print out unknown kernel parameters · 86d1919a
    Andrew Halaney authored
    It is easy to foobar setting a kernel parameter on the command line
    without realizing it, there's not much output that you can use to assess
    what the kernel did with that parameter by default.
    
    Make it a little more explicit which parameters on the command line
    _looked_ like a valid parameter for the kernel, but did not match anything
    and ultimately got tossed to init.  This is very similar to the unknown
    parameter message received when loading a module.
    
    This assumes the parameters are processed in a normal fashion, some
    parameters (dyndbg= for example) don't register their parameter with the
    rest of the kernel's parameters, and therefore always show up in this list
    (and are also given to init - like the rest of this list).
    
    Another example is BOOT_IMAGE= is highlighted as an offender, which it
    technically is, but is passed by LILO and GRUB so most systems will see
    that complaint.
    
    An example output where "foobared" and "unrecognized" are intentionally
    invalid parameters:
    
      Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-dirty debug log_buf_len=4M foobared unrecognized=foo
      Unknown command line parameters: foobared BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-dirty unrecognized=foo
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511211009.42259-1-ahalaney@redhat.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Suggested-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    86d1919a
    init: print out unknown kernel parameters
    Andrew Halaney authored
    It is easy to foobar setting a kernel parameter on the command line
    without realizing it, there's not much output that you can use to assess
    what the kernel did with that parameter by default.
    
    Make it a little more explicit which parameters on the command line
    _looked_ like a valid parameter for the kernel, but did not match anything
    and ultimately got tossed to init.  This is very similar to the unknown
    parameter message received when loading a module.
    
    This assumes the parameters are processed in a normal fashion, some
    parameters (dyndbg= for example) don't register their parameter with the
    rest of the kernel's parameters, and therefore always show up in this list
    (and are also given to init - like the rest of this list).
    
    Another example is BOOT_IMAGE= is highlighted as an offender, which it
    technically is, but is passed by LILO and GRUB so most systems will see
    that complaint.
    
    An example output where "foobared" and "unrecognized" are intentionally
    invalid parameters:
    
      Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-dirty debug log_buf_len=4M foobared unrecognized=foo
      Unknown command line parameters: foobared BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-dirty unrecognized=foo
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511211009.42259-1-ahalaney@redhat.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Suggested-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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