diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
index 1b805a0efbb0..f6d9c99103a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ struct fiemap_extent_info {
 };
 
 It is intended that the file system should not need to access any of this
-structure directly.
+structure directly. Filesystem handlers should be tolerant to signals and return
+EINTR once fatal signal received.
 
 
 Flag checking should be done at the beginning of the ->fiemap callback via the
diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
index 214c3c11fbc2..5d01d2638ca5 100644
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -379,6 +379,11 @@ int __generic_block_fiemap(struct inode *inode,
 				past_eof = true;
 		}
 		cond_resched();
+		if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+			ret = -EINTR;
+			break;
+		}
+
 	} while (1);
 
 	/* If ret is 1 then we just hit the end of the extent array */