On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:40:27 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
> > > - if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
> > > - status = -EINTR;
> > > - break;
> > > - }
> > > } while (iov_iter_count(i));
> > >
> > > return written ? written : status;
> >
> > This won't work, will it? If user hits ^C after we've written a few
> > pages, `written' is non-zero and the same thing happens?
>
> It does work - I've tested it :). Sure, the generic_perform_write() call
> that is running when the signal is delivered will return with value > 0.
> But the interesting thing is what happens after that: Either we return to
> userspace (and then we are fine) or generic_perform_write() gets called
> again because there's more to write and *that* call will return -EINTR
> which ends up terminating the whole sendfile syscall.
OK. I guess that's better behaviour than overwriting a non-zero
`written' when signalled.
I'm going to tag this one for -stable. It's a bit of a DoS.
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