[PATCH] exec: allow > 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems

From: Dave Anderson
Date: Wed Dec 05 2007 - 10:31:23 EST


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().

Signed-off-by: anderson@xxxxxxxxxx
---
--- linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/exec.c.orig
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/exec.c
@@ -658,7 +658,8 @@ struct file *open_exec(const char *name)
int err = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
file = ERR_PTR(err);
if (!err) {
- file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, O_RDONLY);
+ file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, force_o_largefile() ?
+ O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE : O_RDONLY);
if (!IS_ERR(file)) {
err = deny_write_access(file);
if (err) {