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Subject[PATCH] fs/namei: waiting for mutex during name lookups is "killable"
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Use mutex_lock_killable() instead of mutex_lock() during name lookups,
to allow killing the process while it's waiting.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <mk@cm4all.com>
---
fs/namei.c | 9 +++++++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3d15072..08a3163 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1169,7 +1169,10 @@ retry:
struct inode *dir = parent->d_inode;
BUG_ON(nd->inode != dir);

- mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex);
+ err = mutex_lock_killable(&dir->i_mutex);
+ if (unlikely(err))
+ return err;
+
dentry = d_lookup(parent, name);
if (likely(!dentry)) {
dentry = d_alloc_and_lookup(parent, name, nd);
@@ -2166,7 +2169,9 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
if (nd->last.name[nd->last.len])
goto exit;

- mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
+ error = mutex_lock_killable(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
+ if (unlikely(error))
+ goto exit;

dentry = lookup_hash(nd);
error = PTR_ERR(dentry);


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