linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Bail out upon SIGKILL when allocating memory.

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Date:   Mon, 1 Jul 2019 19:32:16 +0530
From:   Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Bail out upon SIGKILL when
 allocating memory.

Hello Tetsuo,

On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:07, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/1/19 6:55 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Andrew, can you pick up this patch? No response from Laura Abbott nor Sumit Semwal.
Apologies; it didn't seem to get flitered out for me. I'll re-check my
email filters.
> >
> > On 2019/06/21 18:58, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >>  From e0758655727044753399fb4f7c5f3eb25ac5cccd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> >> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:22:51 +0900
> >> Subject: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Bail out upon SIGKILL when allocating memory.
> >>
> >> syzbot found that a thread can stall for minutes inside
> >> ion_system_heap_allocate() after that thread was killed by SIGKILL [1].
> >> Let's check for SIGKILL before doing memory allocation.
> >>
> >> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a0e3436829698d5824231251fad9d8e998f94f5e
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> >> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+8ab2d0f39fb79fe6ca40@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c | 3 +++
> >>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c
> >> index fd4995fb676e..f85ec5b16b65 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c
> >> @@ -8,11 +8,14 @@
> >>   #include <linux/list.h>
> >>   #include <linux/slab.h>
> >>   #include <linux/swap.h>
> >> +#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
> >>
> >>   #include "ion.h"
> >>
> >>   static inline struct page *ion_page_pool_alloc_pages(struct ion_page_pool *pool)
> >>   {
> >> +    if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> >> +            return NULL;
> >>      return alloc_pages(pool->gfp_mask, pool->order);
> >>   }
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
fwiw, Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>


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Thanks and regards,

Sumit Semwal
Linaro Consumer Group - Kernel Team Lead
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