Re: [PATCH] fs: make generic_block_fiemap sig-tolerant PING2...

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:49:18 +0300 Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Hello. Someone please take care of this patch.
> 
> W/o that patch unprivileged user may abuse system resources simply by spawning
> wast number of unkilable busyloops (works on ext2/ext3):
> 
> truncate --size 1T test
> for ((i=0;i<1024;i++))
> do
>        filefrag test > /dev/null &
> done
> 
> >> --- a/fs/ioctl.c
> >> +++ b/fs/ioctl.c
> >> @@ -379,6 +379,11 @@ int __generic_block_fiemap(struct inode *inode,
> >>  				past_eof = true;
> >>  		}
> >>  		cond_resched();
> >> +		if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
> >> +			ret = -EINTR;
> >> +			break;
> >> +		}
> >> +
> >>  	} while (1);
> >>  

Is FIEMAP documented anywhere (manpage)?  If so, that will need an
update.
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