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Sm=C3=B8rg?=rav Subject: git: b5a96894f67a - main - rc: Bail if /dev/null is not a device List-Id: Commit messages for the main branch of the src repository List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-src-main List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Sender: owner-dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Git-Committer: des X-Git-Repository: src X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/main X-Git-Reftype: branch X-Git-Commit: b5a96894f67a92f78f0641763eff1e0a46f2e036 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:53:37 +0000 Message-Id: <6a22f101.4456a.528f000a@gitrepo.freebsd.org> The branch main has been updated by des: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b5a96894f67a92f78f0641763eff1e0a46f2e036 commit b5a96894f67a92f78f0641763eff1e0a46f2e036 Author: Dag-Erling Smørgrav AuthorDate: 2026-06-05 15:53:29 +0000 Commit: Dag-Erling Smørgrav CommitDate: 2026-06-05 15:53:29 +0000 rc: Bail if /dev/null is not a device On startup, check that /dev/null exists and is a character device. Otherwise, one of two things will happen: either /dev is a writable directory and we will immediately create /dev/null as a regular file and dump garbage into it, or it does not and we will spit out a stream of error messages about failing to create /dev/null. PR: 295782 MFC after: 1 week Reviewed by: jhb, emaste Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57447 --- libexec/rc/rc | 5 +++++ share/man/man8/rc.8 | 12 +++++++++++- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libexec/rc/rc b/libexec/rc/rc index db3c3e20ab44..75eef606b7fe 100644 --- a/libexec/rc/rc +++ b/libexec/rc/rc @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ HOME=/ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin export HOME PATH +if ! [ -c /dev/null ]; then + echo "/dev is not populated" >&2 + exit 1 +fi + if [ "$1" = autoboot ]; then autoboot=yes _boot="faststart" diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.8 index a68878f0a10a..bfdd65b52f4a 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/rc.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/rc.8 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd September 20, 2024 +.Dd June 4, 2026 .Dt RC 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ command provides a scripting interface to modify system config files. .Ss Operation of Nm .Bl -enum .It +Verify that +.Pa /dev/null +exists and is a character device. +If that is not the case, +.Nm +prints an error message and terminates. +This is normally caused by forgetting to enable +.Xr devfs 5 +in a jail's configuration. +.It If autobooting, set .Va autoboot Ns = Ns Li yes and enable a flag