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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>2019-07-11 21:00:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2019-07-12 11:05:47 -0700
commitc46038017fbdcac627b670c9d4176f1d0c2f5fa3 (patch)
tree5529fe8c15d395da61cba375ed13a35ff544ce34
parentad80b932c57d85fd6377f97f359b025baf179a87 (diff)
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/clear_refs
Do not remain stuck forever if something goes wrong. Using a killable lock permits cleanup of stuck tasks and simplifies investigation. Replace the only unkillable mmap_sem lock in clear_refs_write(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156007493826.3335.5424884725467456239.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Koutný <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/task_mmu.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 78bed6adc62d..7f84d1477b5b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -1140,7 +1140,10 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
goto out_mm;
}
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ if (down_read_killable(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
+ count = -EINTR;
+ goto out_mm;
+ }
tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, 0, -1);
if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY) {
for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {