From: Yoav Zach In ia64 kernel, the O_LARGEFILE flag is forced when opening a file. This is problematic for execution of 32 bit processes, which are not largefile aware, either by SW emulation or by HW execution. For such processes, the problem is two-fold: 1) When trying to open a file that is larger than 4G the operation should fail, but it's not 2) Writing to offset larger than 4G should fail, but it's not The proposed patch takes advantage of the way 32 bit processes are identified in ia64 systems. Such processes have PER_LINUX32 for their personality. With the patch, the ia64 kernel will not enforce the O_LARGEFILE flag if the current process has PER_LINUX32 set. The behavior for all other architectures remains unchanged. Signed-off-by: Yoav Zach Acked-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/open.c | 7 ++++--- include/asm-ia64/fcntl.h | 2 ++ include/linux/fcntl.h | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/open.c~dont-force-o_largefile-for-32-bit-processes-on-ia64-2612-rc3 fs/open.c --- 25/fs/open.c~dont-force-o_largefile-for-32-bit-processes-on-ia64-2612-rc3 2005-05-13 22:13:41.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/fs/open.c 2005-05-13 22:13:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -935,9 +936,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_open(const char __us char * tmp; int fd, error; -#if BITS_PER_LONG != 32 - flags |= O_LARGEFILE; -#endif + if (force_o_largefile()) + flags |= O_LARGEFILE; + tmp = getname(filename); fd = PTR_ERR(tmp); if (!IS_ERR(tmp)) { diff -puN include/asm-ia64/fcntl.h~dont-force-o_largefile-for-32-bit-processes-on-ia64-2612-rc3 include/asm-ia64/fcntl.h --- 25/include/asm-ia64/fcntl.h~dont-force-o_largefile-for-32-bit-processes-on-ia64-2612-rc3 2005-05-13 22:13:41.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/include/asm-ia64/fcntl.h 2005-05-13 22:13:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -81,4 +81,6 @@ struct flock { #define F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE 1024 +#define force_o_largefile() ( ! (current->personality & PER_LINUX32) ) + #endif /* _ASM_IA64_FCNTL_H */ diff -puN include/linux/fcntl.h~dont-force-o_largefile-for-32-bit-processes-on-ia64-2612-rc3 include/linux/fcntl.h --- 25/include/linux/fcntl.h~dont-force-o_largefile-for-32-bit-processes-on-ia64-2612-rc3 2005-05-13 22:13:41.000000000 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/fcntl.h 2005-05-13 22:13:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__ +#ifndef force_o_largefile +#define force_o_largefile() (BITS_PER_LONG != 32) +#endif + #if BITS_PER_LONG == 32 #define IS_GETLK32(cmd) ((cmd) == F_GETLK) #define IS_SETLK32(cmd) ((cmd) == F_SETLK) _