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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 19:36:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>, Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, pageexec@...email.hu, "Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net> Eugene Teo" <eugene@...hat.com> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] execve: improve interactivity with large arguments This adds a preemption point during the copying of the argument and environment strings for execve, in copy_strings(). There is already a preemption point in the count() loop, so this doesn't add any new points in the abstract sense. When the total argument+environment strings are very large, the time spent copying them can be much more than a normal user time slice. So this change improves the interactivity of the rest of the system when one process is doing an execve with very large arguments. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com> --- fs/exec.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 1b63237..6f2d777 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -419,6 +419,8 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, const char __user *const __user *argv, while (len > 0) { int offset, bytes_to_copy; + cond_resched(); + offset = pos % PAGE_SIZE; if (offset == 0) offset = PAGE_SIZE; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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