This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: init-open-initrd.image-with-o_largefile.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4624b346cf67400ef46a31771011fb798dd2f999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:15:22 -0700 Subject: init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE From: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4624b346cf67400ef46a31771011fb798dd2f999 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- init/initramfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/init/initramfs.c +++ b/init/initramfs.c @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ 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 stable-queue which might be from jsperbeck@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.6/init-open-initrd.image-with-o_largefile.patch