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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-02-24 14:58:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-24 17:46:55 -0800
commit5d17a73a2ebeb8d1c6924b91e53ab2650fe86ffb (patch)
tree5e92cb9094e2318130c5ab2c2a47fddad5008f63
parentdbe43d4d2837da3d11fd7f4e2ed1a395012fe6f5 (diff)
downloadlinux-5d17a73a2ebeb8d1c6924b91e53ab2650fe86ffb.tar.bz2
vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed
__vmalloc_area_node() allocates pages to cover the requested vmalloc size. This can be a lot of memory. If the current task is killed by the OOM killer, and thus has an unlimited access to memory reserves, it can consume all the memory theoretically. Fix this by checking for fatal_signal_pending and back off early. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201092706.9966-4-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index d89034a393f2..011b446f8758 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1642,6 +1642,11 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
for (i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i++) {
struct page *page;
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+ area->nr_pages = i;
+ goto fail;
+ }
+
if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE)
page = alloc_page(alloc_mask);
else