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[3.13,085/105] fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible

Message ID 1414436240-13879-86-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
State New
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Kamal Mostafa Oct. 27, 2014, 6:57 p.m. UTC 
3.13.11.10 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

commit c2ca0fcd202863b14bd041a7fece2e789926c225 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 fs/buffer.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index be90719..4252d82 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2313,6 +2313,11 @@  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 */