From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxx>
commit 6988a619f5b79e4efadea6e19dcfe75fbcd350b5 upstream.
A customer has reported that several files in their multi-threaded app
were left with size of 0 because most of the read(2) calls returned
-EINTR and they assumed no bytes were read. Obviously, they could
have fixed it by simply retrying on -EINTR.
We noticed that most of the -EINTR on read(2) were due to real-time
signals sent by glibc to process wide credential changes (SIGRT_1),
and its signal handler had been established with SA_RESTART, in which
case those calls could have been automatically restarted by the
kernel.
Let the kernel decide to whether or not restart the syscalls when
there is a signal pending in __smb_send_rqst() by returning
-ERESTARTSYS. If it can't, it will return -EINTR anyway.
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx>
CC: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/transport.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/cifs/transport.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c
@@ -340,8 +340,8 @@ __smb_send_rqst(struct TCP_Server_Info *
return -EAGAIN;
if (signal_pending(current)) {
- cifs_dbg(FYI, "signal is pending before sending any data\n");
- return -EINTR;
+ cifs_dbg(FYI, "signal pending before send request\n");
+ return -ERESTARTSYS;
}
/* cork the socket */
