[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 17 11:16:21 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 4595138c089fd550ef3e773205dfed626dbbfe3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:00:41 -0400
Subject: fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible
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 at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
fs/buffer.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 19a78d074e0d..4752094053f9 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2328,6 +2328,11 @@ static int cont_expand_zero(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
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 */
--
2.1.0
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