This commit changes device mapper, so that it returns -ERESTARTSYS instead of -EINTR when it is interrupted by a signal (so that the syscal will restart the ioctl). The manpage signal(7) says that the ioctl function should be restarted if the signal was handled with SA_RESTART. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/md/dm.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm.c 2024-07-30 14:06:55.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm.c 2024-07-31 18:10:21.000000000 +0200 @@ -2737,7 +2737,7 @@ static int dm_wait_for_bios_completion(s break; if (signal_pending_state(task_state, current)) { - r = -EINTR; + r = -ERESTARTSYS; break; } @@ -2762,7 +2762,7 @@ static int dm_wait_for_completion(struct break; if (signal_pending_state(task_state, current)) { - r = -EINTR; + r = -ERESTARTSYS; break; }