[PATCH 15/18] uprobes: wait for mmap_sem for write killable

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 08:57:21 EST


From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

xol_add_vma needs mmap_sem for write. If the waiting task gets killed by
the oom killer it would block oom_reaper from asynchronous address space
reclaim and reduce the chances of timely OOM resolving. Wait for the
lock in the killable mode and return with EINTR if the task got killed
while waiting.

Do not warn in dup_xol_work if __create_xol_area failed due to fatal
signal pending because this is usually considered a kernel issue.

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 7edc95edfaee..7bed7f63336d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1130,7 +1130,9 @@ static int xol_add_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct xol_area *area)
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
int ret;

- down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
+ return -EINTR;
+
if (mm->uprobes_state.xol_area) {
ret = -EALREADY;
goto fail;
@@ -1469,7 +1471,8 @@ static void dup_xol_work(struct callback_head *work)
if (current->flags & PF_EXITING)
return;

- if (!__create_xol_area(current->utask->dup_xol_addr))
+ if (!__create_xol_area(current->utask->dup_xol_addr) &&
+ !fatal_signal_pending(current))
uprobe_warn(current, "dup xol area");
}

--
2.8.0.rc3