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Subject[PATCH] Fix poll bug

Hi Alan,

I just found a poll() bug. poll currently returns -EINTR when
a signal occurs, which causes the system call to be restarted. Unfortunately
the timeout is not decreased, so when you have a periodic SA_RESTART timer
with just the right period and no other event occurs poll hangs forever.

select does it correctly, it always returns EINTR and is never restarted.

I found it because syslogd's 30s "mark" timer can trigger it in the
dns resolver when syslogd does forwarding.

This patch fixes the problem. I also fixed an outdated comment.

Please add for 2.2.15. Thanks.

-Andi

--- linux/fs/select.c-o Thu Aug 26 02:29:49 1999
+++ linux/fs/select.c Sun Feb 13 12:52:00 2000
@@ -230,12 +230,8 @@
}

/*
- * We can actually return ERESTARTSYS instead of EINTR, but I'd
- * like to be certain this leads to no problems. So I return
- * EINTR just for safety.
- *
- * Update: ERESTARTSYS breaks at least the xview clock binary, so
- * I'm trying ERESTARTNOHAND which restart only when you want to.
+ * On interrupts return ERESTARTNOHAND, because automatic restart
+ * is not handled properly (the timeout is not decreased).
*/
#define MAX_SELECT_SECONDS \
((unsigned long) (MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT / HZ)-1)
@@ -434,7 +430,7 @@

err = fdcount;
if (!fdcount && signal_pending(current))
- err = -EINTR;
+ err = -ERESTARTNOHAND;

out_fds:
kfree(fds);

--
This is like TV. I don't like TV.

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