The patch titled
Subject: fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant-fix.patch
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From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant-fix
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt~fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant-fix Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt~fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant-fix
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ struct fiemap_extent_info {
};
It is intended that the file system should not need to access any of this
-structure directly.
+structure directly. Filesystem handlers should be tolerant to signals and return
+EINTR once fatal signal received.
Flag checking should be done at the beginning of the ->fiemap callback via the
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant.patch
fs-make-generic_block_fiemap-sig-tolerant-fix.patch
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