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 16:59:46 +0000 (08:59 -0800)
commit9c5f9dcad8be822dd4ebe7f9640b0c8af2c57122
treefd4c1b64b706b7410f61cb1fd2c82c3f4f8f6b55
parentd2d9b7b9b866f0a4a349e4ce4c2904da86df25fd
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