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A customer has reported that several files in their multi-threaded app were left with size of 0 because most of the read(2) calls returned -EINTR and they assumed no bytes were read. Obviously, they could have fixed it by simply retrying on -EINTR. We noticed that most of the -EINTR on read(2) were due to real-time signals sent by glibc to process wide credential changes (SIGRT_1), and its signal handler had been established with SA_RESTART, in which case those calls could have been automatically restarted by the kernel. Let the kernel decide to whether or not restart the syscalls when there is a signal pending in __smb_send_rqst() by returning -ERESTARTSYS. If it can't, it will return -EINTR anyway. Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz> CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.