From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753638AbbKOCIw (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:08:52 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:35176 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752165AbbKOCEu (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:04:50 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Dmitry Vyukov" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Jan Kara" , "Al Viro" Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:45:45 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 41/60] mm: make sendfile(2) killable In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.247 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.73-rc1 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: Ben Hutchings --- mm/filemap.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2408,6 +2408,11 @@ 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)) @@ -2448,10 +2453,6 @@ 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;