Patch "init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

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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




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