[PATCH] make fanotify_read() restartable across signals

From: Lino Sanfilippo
Date: Fri Oct 29 2010 - 06:08:07 EST



In fanotify_read() return -ERESTARTSYS instead of -EINTR to
make read() restartable across signals (BSD semantic).
---
This patch applies against commit 3970d817558a426cc2f53eaa01182eb9452e0cb1
of branch 'origin/for-next' from git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 8c9fd35..99a8e60 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static ssize_t fanotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
ret = -EAGAIN;
if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
break;
- ret = -EINTR;
+ ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
if (signal_pending(current))
break;

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