The patch titled
Allow executables larger than 2GB
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
allow-executables-larger-than-2gb.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: Allow executables larger than 2GB
From: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This allows us to use executables >2GB.
Based on a patch by Dave Anderson
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/exec.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/exec.c~allow-executables-larger-than-2gb fs/exec.c
--- a/fs/exec.c~allow-executables-larger-than-2gb
+++ a/fs/exec.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_uselib(const char __
if (error)
goto exit;
- file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, O_RDONLY);
+ file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE);
error = PTR_ERR(file);
if (IS_ERR(file))
goto out;
@@ -658,7 +658,8 @@ struct file *open_exec(const char *name)
int err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
file = ERR_PTR(err);
if (!err) {
- file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, O_RDONLY);
+ file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd,
+ O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE);
if (!IS_ERR(file)) {
err = deny_write_access(file);
if (err) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-x86.patch
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