+ init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

+ init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

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/init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile.patch

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;
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jsperbeck@google.com are

init-open-initrdimage-with-o_largefile.patch