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 6.8-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-6.8 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
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ 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-6.8/init-open-initrd.image-with-o_largefile.patch
