From 2b83868723d090078ac0e2120e06a1cc94dbaef0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:40:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Make /dev/zero reads interruptible by signals This helps with bad latencies for large reads from /dev/zero, but might conceivably break some application that "knows" that a read of /dev/zero cannot return early. So do this early in the merge window to give us maximal test coverage, even if the patch is totally trivial. Obviously, no well-behaved application should ever depend on the read being uninterruptible, but hey, bugs happen. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/mem.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c index 65e12bca657c..f96d0bef855e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/mem.c +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c @@ -694,9 +694,8 @@ static ssize_t read_zero(struct file * file, char __user * buf, written += chunk - unwritten; if (unwritten) break; - /* Consider changing this to just 'signal_pending()' with lots of testing */ - if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) - return written ? written : -EINTR; + if (signal_pending(current)) + return written ? written : -ERESTARTSYS; buf += chunk; count -= chunk; cond_resched();