Only send SIGXFSZ when exceeding rlimits.

Some users have been having problems with utilities like cp or dd dumping
core when they try to copy a file that's too large for the destination
filesystem (typically, > 4gb).  Apparently, some defunct standards required
SIGXFSZ to be sent in such circumstances, but SUS only requires/allows it
for when a written file exceeds the process's resource limits.  I'd like to
limit SIGXFSZs to the bare minimum required by SUS.

Patch sent per http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/10/302

Signed-off-by: Micah Cowan <micahcowan@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ncpfs/file.c b/fs/ncpfs/file.c
index d3152f8d95c6..2b145de45b39 100644
--- a/fs/ncpfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ncpfs/file.c
@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ ncp_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *
 
         if (pos + count > MAX_NON_LFS && !(file->f_flags&O_LARGEFILE)) {
                 if (pos >= MAX_NON_LFS) {
-                        send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0);
                         return -EFBIG;
                 }
                 if (count > MAX_NON_LFS - (u32)pos) {
@@ -212,7 +211,6 @@ ncp_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *
         }
         if (pos >= inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes) {
                 if (count || pos > inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes) {
-                        send_sig(SIGXFSZ, current, 0);
                         return -EFBIG;
                 }
         }