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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 65e12bc..f96d0be 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -694,9 +694,8 @@
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();