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mm: make sendfile(2) killable
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:32:21 +0000 (13:32 -0700)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Fri, 5 Feb 2016 03:28:18 +0000 (19:28 -0800)
commit15f32dfcf7bd9357592a42bdb729746ea27d34a3
treecc01420a68448fb1e5101aaaedf13ade094d04dc
parent8c1895829d8bbcf49deff92b292e18a1e5277526
mm: make sendfile(2) killable

Orabug: 22623811

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 <jack@suse.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 6c0da28df5dac10672efe955eb89051a850008eb)
Signed-off-by: Dan Duval <dan.duval@oracle.com>
mm/filemap.c