mm: return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults

The idea comes from the upstream discussion between Linus and Andrea:

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

A summary to the issue: there was a special path in handle_userfault() in
the past that we'll return a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE when we detected non-fatal
signals when waiting for userfault handling.  We did that by reacquiring
the mmap_sem before returning.  However that brings a risk in that the
vmas might have changed when we retake the mmap_sem and even we could be
holding an invalid vma structure.

This patch is a preparation of removing that special path by allowing the
page fault to return even faster if we were interrupted by a non-fatal
signal during a user-mode page fault handling routine.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Brian Geffon <[email protected]>
Cc: Bobby Powers <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Denis Plotnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Cracauer <[email protected]>
Cc: Marty McFadden <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Maya Gokhale <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index 7e7271374799..65ea429daaa2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ static inline bool fault_signal_pending(vm_fault_t fault_flags,
 					struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	return unlikely((fault_flags & VM_FAULT_RETRY) &&
-			fatal_signal_pending(current));
+			(fatal_signal_pending(current) ||
+			 (user_mode(regs) && signal_pending(current))));
 }
 
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