Re: [PATCH] gen_init_cpio fixes for 2.5.64

[Anders Gustafsson <andersg@0x63.nu>]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:04:52PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:37:45PM +0100, Anders Gustafsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:43:40PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > ChangeSet 1.1124, 2003/03/07 16:39:06-08:00, greg@kroah.com
> > > 
> > > gen_init_cpio: Add the ability to add files to the cpio image.
> > 
> > Have you been able to boot the kernel with a cpio-archive that contains
> > files larger than a few k? The kernel crashes on me when writing to the file
> > in ramfs.
> 
> I have not tried that, no.
> 
> > It crashes i the third or forth flush_window or so..
> 
> What does the oops show?

I don't have the possibility to capture it at the moment, I have no
serialports on my laptop and no other computer I can test it on at hand at
the moment. 

But it's really easy to reproduce, just add a:
        cpio_mkfile("/bin/busybox","/bin/sh",0755,0,0);
	
or something similar in usr/gen_init_cpio.c

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