On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org> wrote:
> --- linux-2.6.orig/init/initramfs.c
> +++ linux-2.6/init/initramfs.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,26 @@
>  #include <linux/syscalls.h>
>  #include <linux/utime.h>
>
> +static long __init xwrite(unsigned int fd, char *p,
> +                                  size_t count)

Shouldn't this return ssize_t instead of long?

> +{
> +       ssize_t left = count;
> +       long written;

ssize_t written

> +
> +       /* sys_write only can write MAX_RW_COUNT aka 2G-4K bytes at most */
> +       while (left > 0) {
> +               written = sys_write(fd, p, left);
> +
> +               if (written <= 0)
> +                       break;
> +
> +               left -= written;
> +               p += written;
> +       }
> +
> +       return (written < 0) ? written : count;
> +}
> +
>  static __initdata char *message;
>  static void __init error(char *x)
>  {

> @@ -604,8 +624,13 @@ 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);
> +                       long written = xwrite(fd, (char *)initrd_start,

ssize_t written

> +                                               initrd_end - initrd_start);
> +
> +                       if (written != initrd_end - initrd_start)
> +                               pr_err("/initrd.image: incomplete write (%ld 
> != %ld)\n",

"%zd", once written is ssize_t.

> +                                      written, initrd_end - initrd_start);
> +
>                         sys_close(fd);
>                         free_initrd();
>                 }

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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