From: Daniel Jacobowitz Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:26:34 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] Fix large core dumps with a 32-bit off_t X-Git-Tag: v2.6.12~9 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5db92850d3ab72b830a0fe6e30eaec8462801408;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-exynos.git [PATCH] Fix large core dumps with a 32-bit off_t The ELF core dump code has one use of off_t when writing out segments. Some of the segments may be passed the 2GB limit of an off_t, even on a 32-bit system, so it's important to use loff_t instead. This fixes a corrupted core dump in the bigcore test in GDB's testsuite. Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index c374be5..f8f6b6b 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ static int dump_write(struct file *file, const void *addr, int nr) return file->f_op->write(file, addr, nr, &file->f_pos) == nr; } -static int dump_seek(struct file *file, off_t off) +static int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off) { if (file->f_op->llseek) { if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, 0) != off)