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 Dmitry Monakhov writes: > Andrew can you please get this patch. IMHO it is simple and clean. > BTW: > >> __generic_block_fiemap may spin very long time for large sparse files. >> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov >> --- >> fs/ioctl.c | 5 +++++ >> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c >> index 8ac3fad..6fbeb68 100644 >> --- 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); >> >> /* If ret is 1 then we just hit the end of the extent array */ >> -- >> 1.7.1