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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Check for SIGKILL inside dup_mmap() loop.
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 21:29:52 +0900
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Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 03-04-18 05:14:14, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 07:34:59PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > Maybe we can make "give up by default upon SIGKILL" and let callers
> > > explicitly say "do not give up upon SIGKILL".
> > 
> > I really strongly disapprove of this patch.  This GFP flag will be abused
> > like every other GFP flag.
> > 
> > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > @@ -4183,6 +4183,13 @@ bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > >  	if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
> > >  		goto nopage;
> > >  
> > > +	/* Can give up if caller is willing to give up upon fatal signals */
> > > +	if (fatal_signal_pending(current) &&
> > > +	    !(gfp_mask & (__GFP_UNKILLABLE | __GFP_NOFAIL))) {
> > > +		gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN;
> > > +		goto nopage;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > >  	/* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */
> > 
> > This part is superficially tempting, although without the UNKILLABLE.  ie:
> > 
> > +	if (fatal_signal_pending(current) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
> > +		gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN;
> > +		goto nopage;
> > +	}
> > 
> > It makes some sense to me to prevent tasks with a fatal signal pending
> > from being able to trigger reclaim.  But I'm worried about what memory
> > allocation failures it might trigger on paths that aren't accustomed to
> > seeing failures.

Userspace tasks might call routines which need GFP_FS or GFP_NOIO (for
direct reclaim), and giving up upon fatal signals leads to more problems
like FS error or I/O error. Thus, we can't unconditionally give up upon
fatal signals.

> 
> 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().