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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2014-07-27 13:00:41 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-10-09 02:39:03 -0400
commitc2ca0fcd202863b14bd041a7fece2e789926c225 (patch)
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fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible
This patch makes it possible to kill a process looping in cont_expand_zero. A process may spend a lot of time in this function, so it is desirable to be able to kill it. It happened to me that I wanted to copy a piece data from the disk to a file. By mistake, I used the "seek" parameter to dd instead of "skip". Due to the "seek" parameter, dd attempted to extend the file and became stuck doing so - the only possibility was to reset the machine or wait many hours until the filesystem runs out of space and cont_expand_zero fails. We need this patch to be able to terminate the process. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 3588a80854b2..c8a1c01d6187 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2318,6 +2318,11 @@ static int cont_expand_zero(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
err = 0;
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+
+ if (unlikely(fatal_signal_pending(current))) {
+ err = -EINTR;
+ goto out;
+ }
}
/* page covers the boundary, find the boundary offset */