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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/