starting 'kexec -l /dev/mmcblk0p1' fails since the size of a block device can not be determined with stat
Signed-off-by: Andreas Fenkart <[email protected]> --- kexec/kexec.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c index ca1e81d..cf6e03d 100644 --- a/kexec/kexec.c +++ b/kexec/kexec.c @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ #include <stdlib.h> #include <errno.h> #include <limits.h> +#include <sys/ioctl.h> +#include <sys/mount.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/reboot.h> @@ -555,6 +557,12 @@ static char *slurp_file_generic(const char *filename, off_t *r_size, die("Can not seek to the begin of file %s: %s\n", filename, strerror(errno)); buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread); + } else if (S_ISBLK(stats.st_mode)) { + err = ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, &size); + if (err < 0) + die("Can't retrieve size of block device %s: %s\n", + filename, strerror(errno)); + buf = slurp_fd(fd, filename, size, &nread); } else { size = stats.st_size; if (use_mmap) { -- 2.6.1 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
