Bugzilla: 696821 Upstream-status: Sent http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139835974112096&w=2 On 64-bit systems, O_LARGEFILE is automatically added to flags inside the open() syscall (also openat(), blkdev_open(), etc). Userspace therefore defines O_LARGEFILE to be 0 - you can use it, but it's a no-op. Everything should be O_LARGEFILE by default. But: when fanotify does create_fd() it uses dentry_open(), which skips all that. And userspace can't set O_LARGEFILE in fanotify_init() because it's defined to 0. So if fanotify gets an event regarding a large file, the read() will just fail with -EOVERFLOW. This patch adds O_LARGEFILE to fanotify_init()'s event_f_flags on 64-bit systems, using the same test as open()/openat()/etc. Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696821 Acked-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Will Woods --- linux-3.14.1-200.fc20.x86_64/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c.orig 2014-04-23 18:15:29.347644932 -0400 +++ linux-3.14.1-200.fc20.x86_64/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c 2014-04-23 18:17:44.249438484 -0400 @@ -742,6 +742,8 @@ oevent->path.mnt = NULL; oevent->path.dentry = NULL; + if (force_o_largefile()) + event_f_flags |= O_LARGEFILE; group->fanotify_data.f_flags = event_f_flags; #ifdef CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS oevent->response = 0;