init: open output files from cpio unpacking with O_LARGEFILE
authorJohn Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:29:34 +0000 (08:29 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 5 Apr 2024 18:21:30 +0000 (11:21 -0700)
commit8434f9aa6b7e77bc1459d75d1293c3f55bf4687b
tree10d6b92d4413126e7b6d6292873a8aa7208a7312
parent65291dcfcf8936e1b23cfd7718fdfde7cfaf7706
init: open output files from cpio unpacking with O_LARGEFILE

If a member of a cpio archive for an initrd or initrams is larger than
2Gb, we'll eventually fail to write to that file when we get to that
limit, unless O_LARGEFILE is set.

The problem can be seen with this recipe, assuming that BLK_DEV_RAM
is not configured:

cd /tmp
dd if=/dev/zero of=BIGFILE bs=1048576 count=2200
echo BIGFILE | cpio -o -H newc -R root:root > initrd.img
kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) --initrd=initrd.img --reuse-cmdline
kexec -e

The console will show 'Initramfs unpacking failed: write error'.  With
the patch, the error is gone.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240323152934.3307391-1-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: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
init/initramfs.c