mm, fs: check for fatal signals in do_generic_file_read()
commitb67c7d39bc284776c27eeaefd424046c742b0d93
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:13:29 +0000 (3 13:13 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 9 Feb 2017 07:08:28 +0000 (9 08:08 +0100)
tree466543c0e8f8f05e203a685ff9814b8c61373d3a
parent6cb0497aec810617388dfe674209cd417f509844
mm, fs: check for fatal signals in do_generic_file_read()

commit 5abf186a30a89d5b9c18a6bf93a2c192c9fd52f6 upstream.

do_generic_file_read() can be told to perform a large request from
userspace.  If the system is under OOM and the reading task is the OOM
victim then it has an access to memory reserves and finishing the full
request can lead to the full memory depletion which is dangerous.  Make
sure we rather go with a short read and allow the killed task to
terminate.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201092706.9966-3-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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/filemap.c