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[wily/master-next,2/2] UBUNTU: SAUCE: ubuntu: aufs: for 4.3, XINO handles EINTR from the dying process

Message ID 1454345225-1437-5-git-send-email-apw@canonical.com
State New
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Andy Whitcroft Feb. 1, 2016, 4:47 p.m. UTC 
From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

By the commit
	296291c 2015-10-23 mm: make sendfile(2) killable
new_sync_write() (or ->write()) may return EINTR ealier even if it can
succeed the operation. It causes an endless loop in aufs
do_xino_fwrite().
Here is a dirty workaround to retry do_xino_fwrite() in another context
(workqueue).

Reported-by: Akihiro Suda <suda.kyoto@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Akihiro Suda <suda.kyoto@gmail.com>
See-also: http://www.mail-archive.com/aufs-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05231.html
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>

(cherry-picked from 5e439ff30c92143d9a9ee3401a84e34c9852533b aufs4-standalone.git)
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1533043
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
---
 fs/aufs/xino.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/aufs/xino.c b/fs/aufs/xino.c
index 31858c5..2e4a009 100644
--- a/fs/aufs/xino.c
+++ b/fs/aufs/xino.c
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@  ssize_t xino_fread(vfs_readf_t func, struct file *file, void *kbuf, size_t size,
 
 /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 
+static ssize_t xino_fwrite_wkq(vfs_writef_t func, struct file *file, void *buf,
+			       size_t size, loff_t *pos);
+
 static ssize_t do_xino_fwrite(vfs_writef_t func, struct file *file, void *kbuf,
 			      size_t size, loff_t *pos)
 {
@@ -62,14 +65,26 @@  static ssize_t do_xino_fwrite(vfs_writef_t func, struct file *file, void *kbuf,
 		void *k;
 		const char __user *u;
 	} buf;
+	int i;
+	const int prevent_endless = 10;
 
+	i = 0;
 	buf.k = kbuf;
 	oldfs = get_fs();
 	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
 	do {
-		/* todo: signal_pending? */
 		err = func(file, buf.u, size, pos);
-	} while (err == -EAGAIN || err == -EINTR);
+		if (err == -EINTR
+		    && !au_wkq_test()
+		    && fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+			set_fs(oldfs);
+			err = xino_fwrite_wkq(func, file, kbuf, size, pos);
+			BUG_ON(err == -EINTR);
+			oldfs = get_fs();
+			set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
+		}
+	} while (i++ < prevent_endless
+		 && (err == -EAGAIN || err == -EINTR));
 	set_fs(oldfs);
 
 #if 0 /* reserved for future use */