linux-kernel - [PATCH 09/18] ipc, shm: make shmem attach/detach wait for mmap

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:56:16 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 09/18] ipc, shm: make shmem attach/detach wait for mmap_sem killable

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

shmat and shmdt rely on mmap_sem for write. If the waiting task
gets killed by the oom killer it would block oom_reaper from
asynchronous address space reclaim and reduce the chances of timely
OOM resolving. Wait for the lock in the killable mode and return with
EINTR if the task got killed while waiting.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 ipc/shm.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 331fc1b0b3c7..13282510bc0d 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -1200,7 +1200,11 @@ long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, ulong *raddr,
 	if (err)
 		goto out_fput;
 
-	down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+	if (down_write_killable(&current->mm->mmap_sem)) {
+		err = -EINTR;
+		goto out_fput;
+	}
+
 	if (addr && !(shmflg & SHM_REMAP)) {
 		err = -EINVAL;
 		if (addr + size < addr)
@@ -1271,7 +1275,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(shmdt, char __user *, shmaddr)
 	if (addr & ~PAGE_MASK)
 		return retval;
 
-	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
+		return -EINTR;
 
 	/*
 	 * This function tries to be smart and unmap shm segments that
-- 
2.8.0.rc3