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Commit 4025ab36 authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mm, fs: check for fatal signals in do_generic_file_read()

commit 5abf186a30a89d5b9c18a6bf93a2c192c9fd52f6 upstream.

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@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent e86a8769
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