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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/buffer.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
Index: linux-3.14.12/fs/buffer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.14.12.orig/fs/buffer.c 2014-04-08 00:21:59.998849390 +0200
+++ linux-3.14.12/fs/buffer.c 2014-07-27 18:31:54.839750955 +0200
@@ -2311,6 +2311,11 @@ static int cont_expand_zero(struct file
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 */
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