diff --git a/src/antsibull_core/subprocess_util.py b/src/antsibull_core/subprocess_util.py
index ddb8675..f4830d6 100644
--- a/src/antsibull_core/subprocess_util.py
+++ b/src/antsibull_core/subprocess_util.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 import asyncio
 import subprocess
+from asyncio.exceptions import IncompleteReadError, LimitOverrunError
 from collections.abc import Callable, Sequence
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, cast
 
@@ -29,16 +30,32 @@ async def _stream_log(
     name: str, callback: Callable[[str], Any] | None, stream: asyncio.StreamReader,
     errors: str,
 ) -> str:
-    line = await stream.readline()
+    # We do not simply use stream.readline() since it has a line length limit.
+    # While we set this limit already to 8 MB (the default is 64 KB), we still
+    # want to cover longer lines as well, so we use stream.readuntil('\n')
+    # and manually handle the case of longer lines.
     lines = []
+    line_parts = []
+    sep = b'\n'
     while True:
+        try:
+            line_parts.append(await stream.readuntil(sep))
+        except IncompleteReadError as e:
+            line_parts.append(e.partial)
+        except LimitOverrunError as e:
+            part = await stream.read(e.consumed)
+            line_parts.append(part)
+            if part:
+                continue
+
+        line = b''.join(line_parts)
+        line_parts.clear()
         if not line:
             break
         text = line.decode('utf-8', errors=errors)
         if callback:
             callback(f'{name}: {text.strip()}')
         lines.append(text)
-        line = await stream.readline()
     return ''.join(lines)
 
 
@@ -81,6 +98,7 @@ async def async_log_run(
     logger.debug(f'Running subprocess: {args!r}')
     kwargs['stdout'] = asyncio.subprocess.PIPE
     kwargs['stderr'] = asyncio.subprocess.PIPE
+    kwargs['limit'] = 2 ** 23  # Increase line length limit to 8 MB (the default is 64k)
     proc = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(*args, **kwargs)
     stdout, stderr = await asyncio.gather(
         # proc.stdout and proc.stderr won't be None with PIPE, hence the cast()
diff --git a/tests/units/test_subprocess_util.py b/tests/units/test_subprocess_util.py
index 1fb459c..7766916 100644
--- a/tests/units/test_subprocess_util.py
+++ b/tests/units/test_subprocess_util.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, call
 
+import pytest
+
 import antsibull_core.subprocess_util
 
 
@@ -48,3 +50,18 @@ def test_log_run_multi() -> None:
         assert inp == call('stderr: ' + msg)
     assert proc.stdout == '\n'.join(expected_out) + '\n'
     assert proc.stderr == '\n'.join(expected_err) + '\n'
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('count', [
+    8 * 1024 * 1024 - 1,  # should not trigger long line code
+    8 * 1024 * 1024,  # should not trigger long line code
+    8 * 1024 * 1024 + 1,
+    8 * 1024 * 1024 + 10,
+    9 * 1024 * 1024,
+])
+def test_log_run_long_line(count: int) -> None:
+    args = ('sh', '-c', f'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/stdout bs={count} count=1 ; echo ; echo foo')
+    proc = antsibull_core.subprocess_util.log_run(args)
+    assert proc.args == args
+    assert proc.returncode == 0
+    assert proc.stdout == ('\u0000' * count) + '\nfoo\n'