From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> 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. Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- ipc/shm.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c index 331fc1b0b3c7..b8cfa05940d2 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 = -EINVAL; + 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 -- 2.7.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html