From 8b9a65fd282c1d2e5b8ba8d8afaf652cde27b5e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Xu Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 21:08:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults The idea comes from the upstream discussion between Linus and Andrea: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171102193644.GB22686@redhat.com/ A summary to the issue: there was a special path in handle_userfault() in the past that we'll return a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE when we detected non-fatal signals when waiting for userfault handling. We did that by reacquiring the mmap_sem before returning. However that brings a risk in that the vmas might have changed when we retake the mmap_sem and even we could be holding an invalid vma structure. This patch is a preparation of removing that special path by allowing the page fault to return even faster if we were interrupted by a non-fatal signal during a user-mode page fault handling routine. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: Brian Geffon Cc: Bobby Powers Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Denis Plotnikov Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Martin Cracauer Cc: Marty McFadden Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Maya Gokhale Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160230.9598-1-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched/signal.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h index 7e72713..65ea429 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h @@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ static inline bool fault_signal_pending(vm_fault_t fault_flags, struct pt_regs *regs) { return unlikely((fault_flags & VM_FAULT_RETRY) && - fatal_signal_pending(current)); + (fatal_signal_pending(current) || + (user_mode(regs) && signal_pending(current)))); } /* -- 2.7.4