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authorTom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net>2008-12-09 22:14:10 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-12-10 17:01:52 +0100
commitfbb5b7ae4b442f1923513dc6165a66c7a7f29073 (patch)
treee49f1c838a58912a36d03e12d1dab44d2df439d6 /kernel
parentuml: boot broken due to buffer overrun (diff)
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relayfs: fix infinite loop with splice()
Running kmemtraced, which uses splice() on relayfs, causes a hard lock on x86-64 SMP. As described by Tom Zanussi: It looks like you hit the same problem as described here: commit 8191ecd1d14c6914c660dfa007154860a7908857 splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read() relay uses the same loop but it never got noticed or fixed. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Tested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/relay.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c
index 32b0befdcb6a..09ac2008f77b 100644
--- a/kernel/relay.c
+++ b/kernel/relay.c
@@ -1317,12 +1317,9 @@ static ssize_t relay_file_splice_read(struct file *in,
if (ret < 0)
break;
else if (!ret) {
- if (spliced)
- break;
- if (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK) {
+ if (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK)
ret = -EAGAIN;
- break;
- }
+ break;
}
*ppos += ret;