Commit 9687fd91 authored by David Engraf's avatar David Engraf Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarDavid Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d97b07c5
......@@ -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;
......
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