Re: Unkillable R-state process stuck in sendfile

[Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>]

On 02/18/2014 11:13 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:51:37 +0400, Vladimir Davydov said:
>
>>         out_fd = eventfd(0, 0);
>>         if (out_fd < 0)
>>                 err(1, "eventfd");
>>         ret = sendfile64(out_fd, in_fd, NULL, SIZE);
>> I'm not sure if this is actually bad and should be fixed, but perhaps
>> it's worth making do_generic_file_read() check for fatal signals pending
>> and break the read loop if so?
> Why do we even allow an eventfd to be fed to sendfile64 at all? What
> does that even *mean*?

I guess it's meaningless, so another fix (if this should be fixed at
all) would be disabling splice to eventfd. However, I cannot be
100%-sure nobody splices data to eventfd...

Thanks.