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relayfs: fix infinite loop with splice()

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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>
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Tom Zanussi 2008-12-09 13:14:10 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 361371201b
commit fbb5b7ae4b
1 changed files with 2 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -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;