From 4136c26b65d12d0c5ef58b7d30dc0aa2a11ed491 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 16:25:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] coredump: make coredump_wait wait for mmap_sem for write killable coredump_wait waits for mmap_sem for write currently which can prevent oom_reaper to reclaim the oom victims address space asynchronously because that requires mmap_sem for read. This might happen if the oom victim is multi threaded and some thread(s) is holding mmap_sem for read (e.g. page fault) and it is stuck in the page allocator while other thread(s) reached coredump_wait already. This patch simply uses down_write_killable and bails out with EINTR if the lock got interrupted by the fatal signal. do_coredump will return right away and do_group_exit will take care to zap the whole thread group. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/coredump.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c index 492c2db25dc9..38a7ab87e10a 100644 --- a/fs/coredump.c +++ b/fs/coredump.c @@ -413,7 +413,9 @@ static int coredump_wait(int exit_code, struct core_state *core_state) core_state->dumper.task = tsk; core_state->dumper.next = NULL; - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem)) + return -EINTR; + if (!mm->core_state) core_waiters = zap_threads(tsk, mm, core_state, exit_code); up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); -- 2.20.1