While we have to treat -ERESTARTNOINTR specially here as we are looping through a vector of operations and can't simply restart the entire operation, we mustn't hold up fatal signals or RT kernels. --- mm/madvise.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 48eba25e25fe..127aa5d86656 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -1713,8 +1713,14 @@ static ssize_t vector_madvise(struct mm_struct *mm, struct iov_iter *iter, * we have already rescinded locks, it should be no problem to * simply try again. */ - if (ret == -ERESTARTNOINTR) + if (ret == -ERESTARTNOINTR) { + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) { + ret = -EINTR; + break; + } + cond_resched(); continue; + } if (ret < 0) break; iov_iter_advance(iter, iter_iov_len(iter)); -- 2.47.0