ext4: allow readdir()'s of large empty directories to be interrupted
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:36:24 +0000 (22:36 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:36:24 +0000 (22:36 -0400)
If a directory has a large number of empty blocks, iterating over all
of them can take a long time, leading to scheduler warnings and users
getting irritated when they can't kill a process in the middle of one
of these long-running readdir operations.  Fix this by adding checks to
ext4_readdir() and ext4_htree_fill_tree().

Reported-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Google-Bug-Id: 27880676
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/dir.c
fs/ext4/namei.c

index 33f5e2a50cf883c43842e1c89a868fcf70c4c2a9..ebfcb8999db21eb0d221fa85e4eef9e2b7c183d4 100644 (file)
@@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ static int ext4_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
        while (ctx->pos < inode->i_size) {
                struct ext4_map_blocks map;
 
+               if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+                       err = -ERESTARTSYS;
+                       goto errout;
+               }
+               cond_resched();
                map.m_lblk = ctx->pos >> EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(sb);
                map.m_len = 1;
                err = ext4_map_blocks(NULL, inode, &map, 0);
index 48e4b8907826eca52a1e94e14bdfdb0fd2240c56..db98f89f737f05827cc4371c939a29ec31ee4ef2 100644 (file)
@@ -1107,6 +1107,11 @@ int ext4_htree_fill_tree(struct file *dir_file, __u32 start_hash,
        }
 
        while (1) {
+               if (signal_pending(current)) {
+                       err = -ERESTARTSYS;
+                       goto errout;
+               }
+               cond_resched();
                block = dx_get_block(frame->at);
                ret = htree_dirblock_to_tree(dir_file, dir, block, &hinfo,
                                             start_hash, start_minor_hash);