From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 15:06:28 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Tetsuo Handa Cc: willy@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, riel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Check for SIGKILL inside dup_mmap() loop. Message-ID: <20180403130628.GZ5501@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1522322870-4335-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <20180329143003.c52ada618be599c5358e8ca2@linux-foundation.org> <201803301934.DHF12420.SOFFJQMLVtHOOF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <20180403121414.GD5832@bombadil.infradead.org> <20180403121950.GW5501@dhcp22.suse.cz> <201804032129.HIH05759.FJOFOQLtVHMFSO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201804032129.HIH05759.FJOFOQLtVHMFSO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue 03-04-18 21:29:52, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > > Please be aware that we _do_ allocate in the exit path. I have a strong > > suspicion that even while fatal signal is pending. Do we really want > > fail those really easily. > > Does the exit path mean inside do_exit() ? If yes, fatal signals are already > cleared before reaching do_exit(). They usually are. But we can send a SIGKILL on an already killed task after it removed the previously deadly signal already AFAIR. Maybe I mis-remember of course. Signal handling code always makes my head explode and I tend to forget all the details. Anyway relying on fatal_signal_pending for some allocator semantic is just too subtle. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs