fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:00:41 +0000 (13:00 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:23:47 +0000 (16:23 +0000)
commit4a49ed835aad6e51d4ab3f3b42a819040768484b
tree8a1d79ea90af10cdf7d5f9a927834c6cd9d12e0c
parent73a38fc3d805dadd393453b92d797d5fc08b5641
fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible

commit c2ca0fcd202863b14bd041a7fece2e789926c225 upstream.

This patch makes it possible to kill a process looping in
cont_expand_zero. A process may spend a lot of time in this function, so
it is desirable to be able to kill it.

It happened to me that I wanted to copy a piece data from the disk to a
file. By mistake, I used the "seek" parameter to dd instead of "skip". Due
to the "seek" parameter, dd attempted to extend the file and became stuck
doing so - the only possibility was to reset the machine or wait many
hours until the filesystem runs out of space and cont_expand_zero fails.
We need this patch to be able to terminate the process.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/buffer.c