[PATCH v2 6/9] fs: romfs: register an initrd fs detector

From: Julian Stecklina via B4 Relay
Date: Sat Mar 22 2025 - 16:37:13 EST


From: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Port romfs from to the new initrd_fs_detect API. There are no
functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/romfs/Makefile | 4 ++++
fs/romfs/initrd.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
init/do_mounts_rd.c | 14 --------------
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/romfs/Makefile b/fs/romfs/Makefile
index 844928f1571160abed9d5aff54152b5508eaf7be..eb15dc3a78721d7f650560a404a92706260e9b63 100644
--- a/fs/romfs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/romfs/Makefile
@@ -11,3 +11,7 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_MMU),y)
romfs-$(CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD) += mmap-nommu.o
endif

+# If we are built-in, we provide support for romfs on initrds.
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_ROMFS_FS),y)
+romfs-y += initrd.o
+endif
diff --git a/fs/romfs/initrd.c b/fs/romfs/initrd.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ec7b4c9d1f79fac892b7fb1d8e17122092008a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/romfs/initrd.c
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/initrd.h>
+#include <linux/magic.h>
+#include <linux/romfs_fs.h>
+
+static size_t __init detect_romfs(void *block_data)
+{
+ struct romfs_super_block *romfsb
+ = (struct romfs_super_block *)block_data;
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*romfsb) > BLOCK_SIZE);
+
+ /* The definitions of ROMSB_WORD* already handle endianness. */
+ if (romfsb->word0 != ROMSB_WORD0 ||
+ romfsb->word1 != ROMSB_WORD1)
+ return 0;
+
+ return be32_to_cpu(romfsb->size);
+}
+
+initrd_fs_detect(detect_romfs, 0);
diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
index cdc39baaf3a1a65daad5fe6571a82faf3fc95b62..9f9a04cce505e532d444e2aef77037bc2b01da08 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/ext2_fs.h>
-#include <linux/romfs_fs.h>

#include <linux/initrd.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ static int __init crd_load(decompress_fn deco);
*
* We currently check for the following magic numbers:
* ext2
- * romfs
* squashfs
* gzip
* bzip2
@@ -56,7 +54,6 @@ identify_ramdisk_image(struct file *file, loff_t pos,
decompress_fn *decompressor)
{
const int size = BLOCK_SIZE;
- struct romfs_super_block *romfsb;

struct squashfs_super_block *squashfsb;
int nblocks = -1;
@@ -70,7 +67,6 @@ identify_ramdisk_image(struct file *file, loff_t pos,
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;

- romfsb = (struct romfs_super_block *) buf;
squashfsb = (struct squashfs_super_block *) buf;
memset(buf, 0xe5, size);

@@ -92,16 +88,6 @@ identify_ramdisk_image(struct file *file, loff_t pos,
goto done;
}

- /* romfs is at block zero too */
- if (romfsb->word0 == ROMSB_WORD0 &&
- romfsb->word1 == ROMSB_WORD1) {
- printk(KERN_NOTICE
- "RAMDISK: romfs filesystem found at block %d\n",
- start_block);
- nblocks = (ntohl(romfsb->size)+BLOCK_SIZE-1)>>BLOCK_SIZE_BITS;
- goto done;
- }
-
/* squashfs is at block zero too */
if (le32_to_cpu(squashfsb->s_magic) == SQUASHFS_MAGIC) {
printk(KERN_NOTICE

--
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