Patch "fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     fs-make-cont_expand_zero-interruptible.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From c2ca0fcd202863b14bd041a7fece2e789926c225 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:00:41 -0400
Subject: fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit c2ca0fcd202863b14bd041a7fece2e789926c225 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/buffer.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2313,6 +2313,11 @@ 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 */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.14/fs-make-cont_expand_zero-interruptible.patch
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