tmpfs: don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR
I have a program that sets up a periodic timer with 10ms interval. When the program attempts to call fallocate(2) on tmpfs, it goes into an infinite loop. fallocate(2) takes longer than 10ms, so it gets interrupted by a signal and it returns EINTR. On EINTR, the fallocate call is restarted, going into the same loop again. Let's change the signal_pending() check in shmem_fallocate() loop to fatal_signal_pending(). This solves the problem of shmem_fallocate() constantly restarting. Since most other filesystem's fallocate methods don't react to signals, it is unlikely userspace really relies on timely delivery of non-fatal signals while fallocate is running. Also the comment before the signal check: /* * Good, the fallocate(2) manpage permits EINTR: we may have * been interrupted because we are using up too much memory. */ indicates that the check was mainly added for OOM situations in which case the process will be sent a fatal signal so this change preserves the behavior in OOM situations. [JK: Update changelog and comment based on upstream discussion] Signed-off-by:Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515221044.590-1-jack@suse.cz Reviewed-by:
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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