From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1033659AbbKFToI (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:44:08 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48243 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162160AbbKFTmX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:42:23 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , Dmitry Vyukov , Al Viro , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 3.10 08/24] mm: make sendfile(2) killable Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:24:46 -0800 Message-Id: <20151106192412.973687592@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.6.2 In-Reply-To: <20151106192412.414671726@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20151106192412.414671726@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara commit 296291cdd1629c308114504b850dc343eabc2782 upstream. Currently a simple program below issues a sendfile(2) system call which takes about 62 days to complete in my test KVM instance. int fd; off_t off = 0; fd = open("file", O_RDWR | O_TRUNC | O_SYNC | O_CREAT, 0644); ftruncate(fd, 2); lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END); sendfile(fd, fd, &off, 0xfffffff); Now you should not ask kernel to do a stupid stuff like copying 256MB in 2-byte chunks and call fsync(2) after each chunk but if you do, sysadmin should have a way to stop you. We actually do have a check for fatal_signal_pending() in generic_perform_write() which triggers in this path however because we always succeed in writing something before the check is done, we return value > 0 from generic_perform_write() and thus the information about signal gets lost. Fix the problem by doing the signal check before writing anything. That way generic_perform_write() returns -EINTR, the error gets propagated up and the sendfile loop terminates early. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/filemap.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2340,6 +2340,11 @@ again: break; } + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) { + status = -EINTR; + break; + } + status = a_ops->write_begin(file, mapping, pos, bytes, flags, &page, &fsdata); if (unlikely(status)) @@ -2380,10 +2385,6 @@ again: written += copied; balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping); - if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) { - status = -EINTR; - break; - } } while (iov_iter_count(i)); return written ? written : status;