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authorYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>2014-08-08 14:23:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 15:57:26 -0700
commit38747439914c468ecba70b492b54dc4ef0b50453 (patch)
treedbb80c9d8c7be76a8a0483c5ec7a271361162429 /init/initramfs.c
parent4d4b866aee039d609c0b40e7e5b27204607ce614 (diff)
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initramfs: support initrd that is bigger than 2GiB
When initrd (compressed or not) is used, kernel report data corrupted with /dev/ram0. The root cause: During initramfs checking, if it is initrd, it will be transferred to /initrd.image with sys_write. sys_write only support 2G-4K write, so if the initrd ram is more than that, /initrd.image will not complete at all. Add local xwrite to loop calling sys_write to workaround the problem. Also need to use xwrite in write_buffer() to handle: image is uncompressed cpio and there is one big file (>2G) in it. unpack_to_rootfs ===> write_buffer ===> actions[]/do_copy At the same time, we don't need to worry about sys_read/sys_write in do_mounts_rd.c::crd_load. As decompressor will have fill/flush and local buffer that is smaller than 2G. Test with uncompressed initrd, and compressed ones with gz, bz2, lzma,xz, lzop. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: "Daniel M. Weeks" <dan@danweeks.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/initramfs.c')
-rw-r--r--init/initramfs.c36
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index a8497fab1c3d..4f276b6a167b 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -19,6 +19,29 @@
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/utime.h>
+static ssize_t __init xwrite(int fd, const char *p, size_t count)
+{
+ ssize_t out = 0;
+
+ /* sys_write only can write MAX_RW_COUNT aka 2G-4K bytes at most */
+ while (count) {
+ ssize_t rv = sys_write(fd, p, count);
+
+ if (rv < 0) {
+ if (rv == -EINTR || rv == -EAGAIN)
+ continue;
+ return out ? out : rv;
+ } else if (rv == 0)
+ break;
+
+ p += rv;
+ out += rv;
+ count -= rv;
+ }
+
+ return out;
+}
+
static __initdata char *message;
static void __init error(char *x)
{
@@ -346,7 +369,7 @@ static int __init do_name(void)
static int __init do_copy(void)
{
if (count >= body_len) {
- sys_write(wfd, victim, body_len);
+ xwrite(wfd, victim, body_len);
sys_close(wfd);
do_utime(vcollected, mtime);
kfree(vcollected);
@@ -354,7 +377,7 @@ static int __init do_copy(void)
state = SkipIt;
return 0;
} else {
- sys_write(wfd, victim, count);
+ xwrite(wfd, victim, count);
body_len -= count;
eat(count);
return 1;
@@ -603,8 +626,13 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
fd = sys_open("/initrd.image",
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0700);
if (fd >= 0) {
- sys_write(fd, (char *)initrd_start,
- initrd_end - initrd_start);
+ ssize_t written = xwrite(fd, (char *)initrd_start,
+ initrd_end - initrd_start);
+
+ if (written != initrd_end - initrd_start)
+ pr_err("/initrd.image: incomplete write (%zd != %ld)\n",
+ written, initrd_end - initrd_start);
+
sys_close(fd);
free_initrd();
}