linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page

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Date:	Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:20:43 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails

If lock_page_killable() fails because the task was killed by SIGKILL or
any other fatal signal, do_generic_file_read() returns -EIO.

This seems to be OK, because in fact the userspace won't see this error,
the task will dequeue SIGKILL and exit.

However, /sbin/init is different, it will dequeue SIGKILL, ignore it, and
return to the user-space with the bogus -EIO.

Change the code to return the error code from lock_page_killable(), -EINTR.
This doesn't fix the bug, but perhaps makes sense anyway. Imho, with this
change the code looks a bit more logical, and the "good" init should handle
the spurious EINTR or short read.

Afaics we can also change lock_page_killable() to return -ERESTARTNOINTR,
but this can't prevent the short reads.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- 26-rc2/mm/filemap.c~3_INIT_READ	2008-05-18 15:44:19.000000000 +0400
+++ 26-rc2/mm/filemap.c	2008-06-08 19:23:51.000000000 +0400
@@ -1000,8 +1000,9 @@ page_ok:
 
 page_not_up_to_date:
 		/* Get exclusive access to the page ... */
-		if (lock_page_killable(page))
-			goto readpage_eio;
+		error = lock_page_killable(page);
+		if (unlikely(error))
+			goto readpage_error;
 
 		/* Did it get truncated before we got the lock? */
 		if (!page->mapping) {
@@ -1029,8 +1030,9 @@ readpage:
 		}
 
 		if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
-			if (lock_page_killable(page))
-				goto readpage_eio;
+			error = lock_page_killable(page);
+			if (unlikely(error))
+				goto readpage_error;
 			if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
 				if (page->mapping == NULL) {
 					/*
@@ -1042,15 +1044,14 @@ readpage:
 				}
 				unlock_page(page);
 				shrink_readahead_size_eio(filp, ra);
-				goto readpage_eio;
+				error = -EIO;
+				goto readpage_error;
 			}
 			unlock_page(page);
 		}
 
 		goto page_ok;
 
-readpage_eio:
-		error = -EIO;
 readpage_error:
 		/* UHHUH! A synchronous read error occurred. Report it */
 		desc->error = error;

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