This commit changes device mapper, so that it returns -ERESTARTSYS instead of -EINTR when it is interrupted by a signal (so that the ioctl can be restarted). The manpage signal(7) says that the ioctl function should be restarted if the signal was handled with SA_RESTART. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c index 97fab2087df8..87bb90303435 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -2737,7 +2737,7 @@ static int dm_wait_for_bios_completion(struct mapped_device *md, unsigned int ta break; if (signal_pending_state(task_state, current)) { - r = -EINTR; + r = -ERESTARTSYS; break; } @@ -2762,7 +2762,7 @@ static int dm_wait_for_completion(struct mapped_device *md, unsigned int task_st break; if (signal_pending_state(task_state, current)) { - r = -EINTR; + r = -ERESTARTSYS; break; }