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...
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@google.com 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@google.com Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck jsperbeck@google.com Cc: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Cc: Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers@google.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
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;
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from jsperbeck@google.com are
init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile.patch