signal_pending() checks TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and TIF_SIGPENDING, which signal that the task should bail out of the syscall when possible. This is a separate concept from need_resched(), which checks TIF_NEED_RESCHED, signaling that the task should preempt. In particular, with the current code, the signal_pending() bailout probably won't work reliably. Change this to look like other functions that read lots of data, such as read_zero(). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 47f01b1482a9..394cbd814a0b 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -549,13 +549,13 @@ static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(void __user *buf, size_t nbytes) } do { - if (large_request && need_resched()) { + if (large_request) { if (signal_pending(current)) { if (!ret) ret = -ERESTARTSYS; break; } - schedule(); + cond_resched(); } chacha20_block(chacha_state, output);