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| author | David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com> | 2014-08-08 14:23:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-08-08 15:57:26 -0700 |
| commit | 9687fd9101afaa1c4b1de7ffd2f9d7e53f45b29f (patch) | |
| tree | 97b93d548e3f0c288a3191038f8181ec8bf07bf7 /init/initramfs.c | |
| parent | d97b07c54f34e88352ebe676beb798c8f59ac588 (diff) | |
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initramfs: add write error checks
On a system with low memory extracting the initramfs may fail. If this
happens the user gets "Failed to execute /init" instead of an initramfs
error.
Check return value of sys_write and call error() when the write was
incomplete or failed.
Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/initramfs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/initramfs.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c index a7566031242e..bece48c3461e 100644 --- a/init/initramfs.c +++ b/init/initramfs.c @@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ static int __init do_name(void) static int __init do_copy(void) { if (count >= body_len) { - xwrite(wfd, victim, body_len); + if (xwrite(wfd, victim, body_len) != body_len) + error("write error"); sys_close(wfd); do_utime(vcollected, mtime); kfree(vcollected); @@ -377,7 +378,8 @@ static int __init do_copy(void) state = SkipIt; return 0; } else { - xwrite(wfd, victim, count); + if (xwrite(wfd, victim, count) != count) + error("write error"); body_len -= count; eat(count); return 1; |