tree baa9169c23c16b55d46968b5b4964c6e950645e9
parent f1671f6d783a2385d32e11f456cbe32f0e4b4b49
author Randy Robertson <rmrobert@vmware.com> 1239658804 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1239660271 -0700

initramfs: fix initramfs to work with hardlinked init

Change cb6ff208076b5f434db1b8c983429269d719cef5 ("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: Randy Robertson <rmrobert@vmware.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>