[PATCH 1/1] initrd: use O_SYNC flag while opening /dev/ram for write

[George Stark]

initrd image is written to the /dev/ram block device using filp_open(),
kernel_write(). After fput() /dev/ram is mounted and may fail due to not
all data is actually written to the device yet. The mount error remains
hidden due to MS_SILENT flag usage and mount_root_generic has retries.
So use O_SYNC flag to have all data written to /dev/ram before mounting.

Signed-off-by: George Stark <gnstark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 init/do_mounts_rd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/init/do_mounts_rd.c b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
index ac021ae6e6fa..c9a4721c8362 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts_rd.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts_rd.c
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ int __init rd_load_image(char *from)
 	char rotator[4] = { '|' , '/' , '-' , '\\' };
 #endif
 
-	out_file = filp_open("/dev/ram", O_RDWR, 0);
+	out_file = filp_open("/dev/ram", O_RDWR | O_SYNC, 0);
 	if (IS_ERR(out_file))
 		goto out;
 
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