From 913e027ca17ee06fa9436a21e54464795b0fa0e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Monakhov Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:09:29 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fsioctl.c: make generic_block_fiemap() signal-tolerant __generic_block_fiemap may spin very long time for large sparse files. Without this patch an unprivileged user may abuse system resources simply by spawning a vast number of unkilable busyloops (works on ext2/ext3): truncate --size 1T test for ((i=0;i<1024;i++)) do filefrag test > /dev/null & done Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Al Viro Cc: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed