ext4: allow readdir()'s of large empty directories to be interrupted
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:36:24 +0000 (22:36 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 02:36:24 +0000 (22:36 -0400)
commit1028b55bafb7611dda1d8fed2aeca16a436b7dff
treec6881992855b87775897afe3712e6c72811856a0
parentde17e793b104d690e1d007dfc5cb6b4f649598ca
ext4: allow readdir()'s of large empty directories to be interrupted

If a directory has a large number of empty blocks, iterating over all
of them can take a long time, leading to scheduler warnings and users
getting irritated when they can't kill a process in the middle of one
of these long-running readdir operations.  Fix this by adding checks to
ext4_readdir() and ext4_htree_fill_tree().

Reported-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Google-Bug-Id: 27880676
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/dir.c
fs/ext4/namei.c