tree 7e83ab1405cac6b14d5cd4a91f122fa32e18776d
parent 80fbc6c5d03ba9c192f0e406ee0b6ec60711d603
author Bryan Freed <bfreed@chromium.org> 1321045530 -0800
committer Bryan Freed <bfreed@chromium.org> 1321298392 -0800

rootdev: Prevent infinite recursion when parsing /sys/block.

The mmcblk driver of the 3.0.8 kernel adds mmcblk0boot0 and mmcblk0boot1
directories under /sys/block or /sys/block/mmcblk0.  I have seen it both ways.
The device symlink in those directories points to "../../mmcblk0" which
points to the grandparent directory.

When rootdev scans /sys/block looking for a device that matches "/", it
can fall into this loop and recurse until failure.

While a proper fix would detect loops to prevent recursion, that adds
considerable complexity to the directory scan.
This relatively simple solution limits recursion depth to 5 to prevent
infinitely looping.  It will fail to find device matches beyond 5 levels
of directories, but we are nowhere near that in today's systems.  We find
matches at level 3 as best I can tell.

BUG=chromium-os:22855
TEST=Run rootdev and check for failures.

Change-Id: I9ef3aa0a6d6f8143dd0b9e012ba4bb4adfa0c73b
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/11575
Reviewed-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Commit-Ready: Bryan Freed <bfreed@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Bryan Freed <bfreed@chromium.org>