Andi Kleen wrote:
Dave Anderson <[email protected]> writes:
When a executable that is greater than 2GB in size is attempted on a 64-bit
system on a file system that calls, or uses generic_file_open() as its
open handler, it fails with an EOVERFLOW erro. This patch adds a call
to force_o_largefile() call in open_exec(), as done in sys_open() and
sys_openat().
Wouldn't it be better to just always pass O_LARGEFILE unconditionally
there? e.g. in theory a 2.5GB executable should work on i386 and binfmt_*
shouldn't have any problems with a large file.
That would simplify your patch.
-Andi
I agree in theory. We've only seen instances on 64-bitters...
Dave
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