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authorPasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>2022-05-27 02:55:34 +0000
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-06-16 19:58:21 -0700
commitdabba87229411a5e9d20ac03ffc36463c53ae672 (patch)
tree18f5d1a121bb1723e153908378e1feeb4a6253d3 /include/linux/limits.h
parentd30dfd490f7dc4cb6a7c11a647bd1ff7a22139e7 (diff)
fs/kernel_read_file: allow to read files up-to ssize_t
Patch series "Allow to kexec with initramfs larger than 2G", v2. Currently, the largest initramfs that is supported by kexec_file_load() syscall is 2G. This is because kernel_read_file() returns int, and is limited to INT_MAX or 2G. On the other hand, there are kexec based boot loaders (i.e. u-root), that may need to boot netboot images that might be larger than 2G. The first patch changes the return type from int to ssize_t in kernel_read_file* functions. The second patch increases the maximum initramfs file size to 4G. Tested: verified that can kexec_file_load() works with 4G initramfs on x86_64. This patch (of 2): Currently, the maximum file size that is supported is 2G. This may be too small in some cases. For example, kexec_file_load() system call loads initramfs. In some netboot cases initramfs can be rather large. Allow to use up-to ssize_t bytes. The callers still can limit the maximum file size via buf_size. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220527025535.3953665-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220527025535.3953665-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/limits.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/limits.h b/include/linux/limits.h
index b568b9c30bbf..f6bcc9369010 100644
--- a/include/linux/limits.h
+++ b/include/linux/limits.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include <vdso/limits.h>
#define SIZE_MAX (~(size_t)0)
+#define SSIZE_MAX ((ssize_t)(SIZE_MAX >> 1))
#define PHYS_ADDR_MAX (~(phys_addr_t)0)
#define U8_MAX ((u8)~0U)