0009571: Dracut sources .conf files from the root directory

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0009571	Rocky-Linux-9	dracut	public	2025-05-30 16:59	2025-05-30 17:04

Reporter	Vincent Roch	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	amd64	OS	Rocky Linux	OS Version	9.5

Summary	0009571: Dracut sources .conf files from the root directory
Description	Rebuilding the initramfs image with dracut, causes an attempt to source / execute all files ending with .conf. [root@static ~]# echo ‘echo “test”; invalid_cmd’ > /i.conf [root@static ~]# dracut -f test /i.conf: line 1: invalid_cmd: command not found After my own debugging I was able to determine that this problem originates from /usr/bin/dracut line 965-969. The subcommand dropindirs_sort ( line 349-364 ) searches in $@ for files ending with $1 ( in this case ‘.conf’ ) and returns them sorted. These files are then sourced and executed.
Steps To Reproduce	- Installing Rocky Linux 9.5 on an amd64 system - Create any .conf file under / and fill it with content - execute dracut -f
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Date Modified	Username	Field
2025-05-30 16:59	Vincent Roch	New Issue
2025-05-30 16:59	Vincent Roch	Tag Attached: dhcp
2025-05-30 17:04	Vincent Roch	Note Added: 0010231
2025-05-30 17:04	Vincent Roch	Tag Detached: dhcp

Vincent Roch 2025-05-30 17:04 reporter ~0010231	Additional Information: The problem that files are found under / is caused by the variable $add_config, which is empty.