Re: [PATCH] mm, gup: return EINTR when gup is interrupted by fatal signals

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:11 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ERESTARTSYS is also quite confusing because the signal is fatal and so
> no handling will happen before returning to the userspace.

Ack. Except I'd rephrase that as "no restart" rather than "no handling".

We do end up handling the fatal signal, it's just that the handling
doesn't involve restarting, it just involves dying.

That said, I'll leave this to the usual channels, since it isn't
exactly the same kind of urgent fix that I picked up directly..

              Linus