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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-03 12:15:29 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-03 12:15:29 -0700 |
commit | a602285ac11b019e9ce7c3907328e9f95f4967f0 (patch) | |
tree | 387df215e3cb20d38b5122eaf727a0a39d334d5a /mm/oom_kill.c | |
parent | 5c4e0a21fae877a7ef89be6dcc6263ec672372b8 (diff) | |
parent | 3f66f86bfed33dee2e9c1d0e14486915bb0750b0 (diff) |
Merge branch 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull per signal_struct coredumps from Eric Biederman:
"Current coredumps are mixed up with the exit code, the signal handling
code, and the ptrace code making coredumps much more complicated than
necessary and difficult to follow.
This series of changes starts with ptrace_stop and cleans it up,
making it easier to follow what is happening in ptrace_stop. Then
cleans up the exec interactions with coredumps. Then cleans up the
coredump interactions with exit. Finally the coredump interactions
with the signal handling code is cleaned up.
The first and last changes are bug fixes for minor bugs.
I believe the fact that vfork followed by execve can kill the process
the called vfork if exec fails is sufficient justification to change
the userspace visible behavior.
In previous discussions some of these changes were organized
differently and individually appeared to make the code base worse. As
currently written I believe they all stand on their own as cleanups
and bug fixes.
Which means that even if the worst should happen and the last change
needs to be reverted for some unimaginable reason, the code base will
still be improved.
If the worst does not happen there are a more cleanups that can be
made. Signals that generate coredumps can easily become eligible for
short circuit delivery in complete_signal. The entire rendezvous for
generating a coredump can move into get_signal. The function
force_sig_info_to_task be written in a way that does not modify the
signal handling state of the target task (because coredumps are
eligible for short circuit delivery). Many of these future cleanups
can be done another way but nothing so cleanly as if coredumps become
per signal_struct"
* 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
coredump: Limit coredumps to a single thread group
coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core
exit: Factor coredump_exit_mm out of exit_mm
exec: Check for a pending fatal signal instead of core_state
ptrace: Remove the unnecessary arguments from arch_ptrace_stop
signal: Remove the bogus sigkill_pending in ptrace_stop
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/oom_kill.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/oom_kill.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 989f35a2bbb1..50b984d048ce 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -787,9 +787,9 @@ static inline bool __task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task) struct signal_struct *sig = task->signal; /* - * A coredumping process may sleep for an extended period in exit_mm(), - * so the oom killer cannot assume that the process will promptly exit - * and release memory. + * A coredumping process may sleep for an extended period in + * coredump_task_exit(), so the oom killer cannot assume that + * the process will promptly exit and release memory. */ if (sig->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP) return false; |