Re: [PATCH] block: Bail out iteration functions upon SIGKILL.

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Thanks for the patch, this looks good to me, let me test this patch
will send a review then.

On 11/08/2019 03:54 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> syzbot found that a thread can stall for minutes inside fallocate()
> after that thread was killed by SIGKILL [1]. While trying to allocate
> 64TB of disk space using fallocate() is legal, delaying termination of
> killed thread for minutes is bad. Thus, allow iteration functions in
> block/blk-lib.c to be killable.
>
> [1]https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=9386d051e11e09973d5a4cf79af5e8cedf79386d
>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa<penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: syzbot<syzbot+b48daca8639150bc5e73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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