From fbb5b7ae4b442f1923513dc6165a66c7a7f29073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Zanussi Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:14:10 -0800 Subject: relayfs: fix infinite loop with splice() Running kmemtraced, which uses splice() on relayfs, causes a hard lock on x86-64 SMP. As described by Tom Zanussi: It looks like you hit the same problem as described here: commit 8191ecd1d14c6914c660dfa007154860a7908857 splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read() relay uses the same loop but it never got noticed or fixed. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Tested-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/relay.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c index 32b0befdcb6..09ac2008f77 100644 --- a/kernel/relay.c +++ b/kernel/relay.c @@ -1317,12 +1317,9 @@ static ssize_t relay_file_splice_read(struct file *in, if (ret < 0) break; else if (!ret) { - if (spliced) - break; - if (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK) { + if (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK) ret = -EAGAIN; - break; - } + break; } *ppos += ret; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258