From 91f4f94ea3f2eabb4cee68149a31e30f84a993dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 16:25:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ipc, shm: make shmem attach/detach wait for mmap_sem killable 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. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- ipc/shm.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c index 331fc1b..1328251 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(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); + if (down_write_killable(¤t->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 -- 2.7.4