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Commit d20d5a74 authored by Randy Robertson's avatar Randy Robertson Committed by Linus Torvalds
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initramfs: fix initramfs to work with hardlinked init


Change cb6ff208 ("NOMMU: Support XIP on
initramfs") seems to have broken booting from initramfs with /sbin/init
being a hardlink.

It seems like the logic required for XIP on nommu, i.e.  ftruncate to
reported cpio header file size (body_len) is broken for hardlinks, which
have a reported size of 0, and the truncate thus nukes the contents of the
file (in my case busybox), making boot impossible and ending with runaway
loop modprobe binfmt-0000 - and of course 0000 is not a valid binary
format.

My fix is to only call ftruncate if size is non-zero which fixes things
for me, but I'm not certain whether this will break XIP for those files on
nommu systems, although I would guess not.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Robertson <rmrobert@vmware.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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