fs: make cont_expand_zero interruptible
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:00:41 +0000 (13:00 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:47:53 +0000 (08:47 -0800)
commitf83813a8aff1f5af9f4a02d5ce0a29be40f45a41
tree9594609ee3ab5d188811d70a7d6923ec6336f94c
parentb6e03bbd143af13a8bff1322c07da2d2ef894815
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/buffer.c