The patch titled
Subject: init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:15:22 -0700
If initrd data is larger than 2Gb, we'll eventually fail to write to the
/initrd.image file when we hit that limit, unless O_LARGEFILE is set.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240317221522.896040-1-jsperbeck@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
init/initramfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/init/initramfs.c~init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile
+++ a/init/initramfs.c
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ static void __init populate_initrd_image
printk(KERN_INFO "rootfs image is not initramfs (%s); looks like an initrd\n",
err);
- file = filp_open("/initrd.image", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0700);
+ file = filp_open("/initrd.image", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0700);
if (IS_ERR(file))
return;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jsperbeck@xxxxxxxxxx are
init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile.patch
