[Buildroot] [PATCH] fs/cpio/init: unbreak ttyname_r() on glibc after dropping /dev/console exec

[Peter Korsgaard]

Commit 98a6f1fc02e41 (fs/cpio: make initramfs init script survive 'console='
kernel argument) dropped the explicit /dev/console execs for fd 0,1,2, as
they fail when booted with console= and aren't really needed as the kernel
will setup fd 0,1,2 from /dev/console before executing the initramfs anyway.

Not doing this unfortunately confuses glibc's ttyname_r(3) implementation
(used by E.G.  busybox/coreutils 'tty'), causing it to fail with ENOENT as
it does a fstat on fd 0 and tries to match up st_ino / st_dev against the
entries in /dev (since glibc 2.26):

 commit 15e9a4f378c8607c2ae1aa465436af4321db0e23
 Author: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner at canonical.com>
 Date:   Fri Jan 27 15:59:59 2017 +0100

    linux ttyname and ttyname_r: do not return wrong results

    If a link (say /proc/self/fd/0) pointing to a device, say /dev/pts/2, in a
    parent mount namespace is passed to ttyname, and a /dev/pts/2 exists (in a
    different devpts) in the current namespace, then it returns /dev/pts/2.
    But /dev/pts/2 is NOT the current tty, it is a different file and device.

    Detect this case and return ENODEV.  Userspace can choose to take this as a hint
    that the fd points to a tty device but to act on the fd rather than the link.

    Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com>
    Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner at ubuntu.com>

The reason it fails is that we manually mount devtmpfs on /dev in /init, so
the /dev/console used by the kernel (in rootfs) is not the same file as
/dev/console at runtime (in devtmpfs).

Notice: Once logged in, tty does work correctly.  Presumably login reopens
stdin/stdout/stderr.

To fix this, re-add the exec of /dev/console for fd 0,1,2, but only do so if
possible.  Because of the above mentioned shell behaviour (specified by
POSIX [0]), perform this check in a subshell.

[0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_20_01

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
---
 fs/cpio/init | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/cpio/init b/fs/cpio/init
index b0af18b67a..f74ef7e15f 100755
--- a/fs/cpio/init
+++ b/fs/cpio/init
@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # devtmpfs does not get automounted for initramfs
 /bin/mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev
+
+# use the /dev/console device node from devtmpfs if possible to not
+# confuse glibc's ttyname_r().
+# This may fail (E.G. booted with console=), and errors from exec will
+# terminate the shell, so use a subshell for the test
+if (exec 0</dev/console) 2>/dev/null; then
+    exec 0</dev/console
+    exec 1>/dev/console
+    exec 2>/dev/console
+fi
+
 exec /sbin/init "$@"
-- 
2.20.1