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kbuild: add support for squashing uid/gid in gen_initramfs_list.sh
Sometimes it is useful to squash all uid's/gid's to 0:0 regardless of current owner. For example, in build systems that get run as arbitrary users (uClinux-dist). This adds a special "squash" keyword so you can do '-g squash -u squash' and have ownership squashed to root. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh

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@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ $0 [-o <file>] [-u <uid>] [-g <gid>] {-d | <cpio_source>} ...
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-o <file> Create gzipped initramfs file named <file> using
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gen_init_cpio and gzip
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-u <uid> User ID to map to user ID 0 (root).
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<uid> is only meaningful if <cpio_source>
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is a directory.
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<uid> is only meaningful if <cpio_source> is a
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directory. "squash" forces all files to uid 0.
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-g <gid> Group ID to map to group ID 0 (root).
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<gid> is only meaningful if <cpio_source>
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is a directory.
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<gid> is only meaningful if <cpio_source> is a
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directory. "squash" forces all files to gid 0.
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<cpio_source> File list or directory for cpio archive.
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If <cpio_source> is a .cpio file it will be used
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as direct input to initramfs.
@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ parse() {
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local gid="$4"
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local ftype=$(filetype "${location}")
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# remap uid/gid to 0 if necessary
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[ "$uid" -eq "$root_uid" ] && uid=0
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[ "$gid" -eq "$root_gid" ] && gid=0
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[ "$root_uid" = "squash" ] && uid=0 || [ "$uid" -eq "$root_uid" ] && uid=0
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[ "$root_gid" = "squash" ] && gid=0 || [ "$gid" -eq "$root_gid" ] && gid=0
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local str="${mode} ${uid} ${gid}"
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[ "${ftype}" == "invalid" ] && return 0

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