mm, fs: check for fatal signals in do_generic_file_read()
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:13:29 +0000 (13:13 -0800)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:04:18 +0000 (14:04 +0200)
commit6ee1806c1f515818d4ff31ffff5b3ea376e954bc
treecd528cb3cc7c1c93d669df885ae2011095269f83
parent18f626429a5a6a1b9a9742e944bdeb3536f030f5
mm, fs: check for fatal signals in do_generic_file_read()

commit 5abf186a30a89d5b9c18a6bf93a2c192c9fd52f6 upstream.

do_generic_file_read() can be told to perform a large request from
userspace.  If the system is under OOM and the reading task is the OOM
victim then it has an access to memory reserves and finishing the full
request can lead to the full memory depletion which is dangerous.  Make
sure we rather go with a short read and allow the killed task to
terminate.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201092706.9966-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
mm/filemap.c