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Patch "btrfs: make file clone aware of fatal signals" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

btrfs: make file clone aware of fatal signals

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
btrfs-make-file-clone-aware-of-fatal-signals.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 69ae5e4459e43e56f03d0987e865fbac2b05af2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Wang Xiaoguang <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:23:39 +0800
Subject: btrfs: make file clone aware of fatal signals

From: Wang Xiaoguang <[email protected]>

commit 69ae5e4459e43e56f03d0987e865fbac2b05af2a upstream.

Indeed this just make the behavior similar to xfs when process has fatal signals pending, and it'll make fstests/generic/298 happy.

---
 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +5 -0
@@ -3825,6 +3825,11 @@ process_slot:
 		}
 		btrfs_release_path(path);
 		key.offset = next_key_min_offset;
+
+		if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+			ret = -EINTR;
+			goto out;
+		}
 	}
 	ret = 0;
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/btrfs-make-file-clone-aware-of-fatal-signals.patch