The patch titled Subject: mm, fs: check for fatal signals in do_generic_file_read() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fs-check-for-fatal-signals-in-do_generic_file_read.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fs-check-for-fatal-signals-in-do_generic_file_read.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fs-check-for-fatal-signals-in-do_generic_file_read.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, fs: check for fatal signals in do_generic_file_read() 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@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/filemap.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/filemap.c~mm-fs-check-for-fatal-signals-in-do_generic_file_read mm/filemap.c --- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-fs-check-for-fatal-signals-in-do_generic_file_read +++ a/mm/filemap.c @@ -1791,6 +1791,11 @@ static ssize_t do_generic_file_read(stru cond_resched(); find_page: + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) { + error = -EINTR; + goto out; + } + page = find_get_page(mapping, index); if (!page) { page_cache_sync_readahead(mapping, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are fs-break-out-of-iomap_file_buffered_write-on-fatal-signals.patch mm-fs-check-for-fatal-signals-in-do_generic_file_read.patch mm-throttle-show_mem-from-warn_alloc.patch mm-trace-extract-compaction_status-and-zone_type-to-a-common-header.patch oom-trace-add-oom-detection-tracepoints.patch oom-trace-add-compaction-retry-tracepoint.patch mm-vmscan-remove-unused-mm_vmscan_memcg_isolate.patch mm-vmscan-add-active-list-aging-tracepoint.patch mm-vmscan-add-active-list-aging-tracepoint-update.patch mm-vmscan-show-the-number-of-skipped-pages-in-mm_vmscan_lru_isolate.patch mm-vmscan-show-lru-name-in-mm_vmscan_lru_isolate-tracepoint.patch mm-vmscan-extract-shrink_page_list-reclaim-counters-into-a-struct.patch mm-vmscan-enhance-mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive-tracepoint.patch mm-vmscan-add-mm_vmscan_inactive_list_is_low-tracepoint.patch trace-vmscan-postprocess-sync-with-tracepoints-updates.patch mm-vmscan-do-not-count-freed-pages-as-pgdeactivate.patch mm-vmscan-cleanup-lru-size-claculations.patch mm-vmscan-consider-eligible-zones-in-get_scan_count.patch revert-mm-bail-out-in-shrink_inactive_list.patch mm-page_alloc-do-not-report-all-nodes-in-show_mem.patch mm-page_alloc-warn_alloc-print-nodemask.patch arch-mm-remove-arch-specific-show_mem.patch lib-show_memc-teach-show_mem-to-work-with-the-given-nodemask.patch mm-consolidate-gfp_nofail-checks-in-the-allocator-slowpath.patch mm-oom-do-not-enfore-oom-killer-for-__gfp_nofail-automatically.patch mm-help-__gfp_nofail-allocations-which-do-not-trigger-oom-killer.patch vmalloc-back-of-when-the-current-is-killed.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html