From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751922AbaLRXMu (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:12:50 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57980 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751722AbaLRXMs (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:12:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:12:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Dmitry Monakhov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext4 development , "Theodore Ts'o" , Al Viro , Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: make generic_block_fiemap sig-tolerant PING2... Message-Id: <20141218151247.b6ccd73351f40db66818c07e@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <87zjavehsx.fsf@openvz.org> References: <1413552269-32203-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org> <871toikt7c.fsf@openvz.org> <87zjavehsx.fsf@openvz.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.0beta7 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:49:18 +0300 Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > > Hello. Someone please take care of this patch. > > W/o that patch unprivileged user may abuse system resources simply by spawning > wast number of unkilable busyloops (works on ext2/ext3): > > truncate --size 1T test > for ((i=0;i<1024;i++)) > do > filefrag test > /dev/null & > done > > >> --- a/fs/ioctl.c > >> +++ b/fs/ioctl.c > >> @@ -379,6 +379,11 @@ int __generic_block_fiemap(struct inode *inode, > >> past_eof = true; > >> } > >> cond_resched(); > >> + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) { > >> + ret = -EINTR; > >> + break; > >> + } > >> + > >> } while (1); > >> Is FIEMAP documented anywhere (manpage)? If so, that will need an update.