cifs: allow syscalls to be restarted in __smb_send_rqst()

A customer has reported that several files in their multi-threaded app
were left with size of 0 because most of the read(2) calls returned
-EINTR and they assumed no bytes were read.  Obviously, they could
have fixed it by simply retrying on -EINTR.

We noticed that most of the -EINTR on read(2) were due to real-time
signals sent by glibc to process wide credential changes (SIGRT_1),
and its signal handler had been established with SA_RESTART, in which
case those calls could have been automatically restarted by the
kernel.

Let the kernel decide to whether or not restart the syscalls when
there is a signal pending in __smb_send_rqst() by returning
-ERESTARTSYS.  If it can't, it will return -EINTR anyway.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/transport.c b/fs/cifs/transport.c
index e27e255d40dd..36b2ece43403 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/transport.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c
@@ -339,8 +339,8 @@ __smb_send_rqst(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, int num_rqst,
 		return -EAGAIN;
 
 	if (signal_pending(current)) {
-		cifs_dbg(FYI, "signal is pending before sending any data\n");
-		return -EINTR;
+		cifs_dbg(FYI, "signal pending before send request\n");
+		return -ERESTARTSYS;
 	}
 
 	/* cork the socket */