Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:37:45 +1100 | From | Michael Neuling <> | Subject | [PATCH] Chained CPIOs writing to the same file bug |
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You can chain CPIOs together for the initramfs, but if two CPIOs write to the same file, we don't clear the first before writing the second. If the first is larger than the second, we end up with a mash of the two. Trivial patch below to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> --- init/initramfs.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6-linus/init/initramfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-linus.orig/init/initramfs.c +++ linux-2.6-linus/init/initramfs.c @@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ static int __init do_name(void) return 0; if (S_ISREG(mode)) { if (maybe_link() >= 0) { - wfd = sys_open(collected, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, mode); + wfd = sys_open(collected, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, + mode); if (wfd >= 0) { sys_fchown(wfd, uid, gid); sys_fchmod(wfd, mode); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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