From: Christoph Hellwig Use mutex_lock_interruptible in simple_attr_read/write. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg KH Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/libfs.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/libfs.c~libfs-make-simple-attributes-interruptible fs/libfs.c --- a/fs/libfs.c~libfs-make-simple-attributes-interruptible +++ a/fs/libfs.c @@ -634,7 +634,10 @@ ssize_t simple_attr_read(struct file *fi if (!attr->get) return -EACCES; - mutex_lock(&attr->mutex); + ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&attr->mutex); + if (ret) + return ret; + if (*ppos) { /* continued read */ size = strlen(attr->get_buf); } else { /* first read */ @@ -666,7 +669,10 @@ ssize_t simple_attr_write(struct file *f if (!attr->set) return -EACCES; - mutex_lock(&attr->mutex); + ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(&attr->mutex); + if (ret) + return ret; + ret = -EFAULT; size = min(sizeof(attr->set_buf) - 1, len); if (copy_from_user(attr->set_buf, buf, size)) _