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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2016-04-23 22:50:07 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2016-04-23 22:50:07 -0400
commit1f60fbe7274918adb8db2f616e321890730ab7e3 (patch)
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ext4: allow readdir()'s of large empty directories to be interrupted
If a directory has a large number of empty blocks, iterating over all of them can take a long time, leading to scheduler warnings and users getting irritated when they can't kill a process in the middle of one of these long-running readdir operations. Fix this by adding checks to ext4_readdir() and ext4_htree_fill_tree(). This was reverted earlier due to a typo in the original commit where I experimented with using signal_pending() instead of fatal_signal_pending(). The test was in the wrong place if we were going to return signal_pending() since we would end up returning duplicant entries. See 9f2394c9be47 for a more detailed explanation. Added fix as suggested by Linus to check for signal_pending() in in the filldir() functions. Reported-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Google-Bug-Id: 27880676 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/readdir.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/readdir.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/readdir.c b/fs/readdir.c
index e69ef3b79787..5f2d4bee5a73 100644
--- a/fs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/readdir.c
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ static int filldir(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen,
}
dirent = buf->previous;
if (dirent) {
+ if (signal_pending(current))
+ return -EINTR;
if (__put_user(offset, &dirent->d_off))
goto efault;
}
@@ -248,6 +250,8 @@ static int filldir64(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen,
return -EINVAL;
dirent = buf->previous;
if (dirent) {
+ if (signal_pending(current))
+ return -EINTR;
if (__put_user(offset, &dirent->d_off))
goto efault;
}