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mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in access_remote_vm
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:00:07 +0000 (21:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fri, 12 Jul 2019 18:05:47 +0000 (11:05 -0700)
commit1e426fe28261b03f297992e89da3320b42816f4e
tree7b44fe31e28a4dc64053652cca031326935f4b92
parentcd9e2bb8271c971d9f37c722be2616c7f8ba0664
mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in access_remote_vm

This function is used by ptrace and proc files like /proc/pid/cmdline and
/proc/pid/environ.

Access_remote_vm never returns error codes, all errors are ignored and
only size of successfully read data is returned.  So, if current task was
killed we'll simply return 0 (bytes read).

Mmap_sem could be locked for a long time or forever if something goes
wrong.  Using a killable lock permits cleanup of stuck tasks and
simplifies investigation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156007494202.3335.16782303099589302087.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/memory.c
mm/nommu.c
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