mm: check for SIGKILL inside dup_mmap() loop

As a theoretical problem, dup_mmap() of an mm_struct with 60000+ vmas
can loop while potentially allocating memory, with mm->mmap_sem held for
write by current thread.  This is bad if current thread was selected as
an OOM victim, for current thread will continue allocations using memory
reserves while OOM reaper is unable to reclaim memory.

As an actually observable problem, it is not difficult to make OOM
reaper unable to reclaim memory if the OOM victim is blocked at
i_mmap_lock_write() in this loop.  Unfortunately, since nobody can
explain whether it is safe to use killable wait there, let's check for
SIGKILL before trying to allocate memory.  Even without an OOM event,
there is no point with continuing the loop from the beginning if current
thread is killed.

I tested with debug printk().  This patch should be safe because we
already fail if security_vm_enough_memory_mm() or
kmem_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL) fails and exit_mmap() handles it.

   ***** Aborting dup_mmap() due to SIGKILL *****
   ***** Aborting dup_mmap() due to SIGKILL *****
   ***** Aborting dup_mmap() due to SIGKILL *****
   ***** Aborting dup_mmap() due to SIGKILL *****
   ***** Aborting exit_mmap() due to NULL mmap *****

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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 92870be50bba..9440d61b925c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -440,6 +440,14 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			continue;
 		}
 		charge = 0;
+		/*
+		 * Don't duplicate many vmas if we've been oom-killed (for
+		 * example)
+		 */
+		if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+			retval = -EINTR;
+			goto out;
+		}
 		if (mpnt->vm_flags & VM_ACCOUNT) {
 			unsigned long len = vma_pages(mpnt);