coredump: make coredump_wait wait for mmap_sem for write killable
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Mon, 23 May 2016 23:25:57 +0000 (16:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 24 May 2016 00:04:14 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
commit4136c26b65d12d0c5ef58b7d30dc0aa2a11ed491
treeacd092b56a44a3f87027e27ac93900ce4fa560b1
parent69048176078adda4087a648c9b1812ddd800fad1
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 <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/coredump.c