From 2d6c928241add2848e4eebfce407e95164229976 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 16:25:42 -0700
Subject: mm: make vm_brk killable

Now that all the callers handle vm_brk failure we can change it wait for
mmap_sem killable to help oom_reaper to not get blocked just because
vm_brk gets blocked behind mmap_sem readers.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'mm')

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index ca292a7c2b68..d3d9a94ca031 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2712,12 +2712,9 @@ unsigned long vm_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
 	unsigned long ret;
 	bool populate;
 
-	/*
-	 * XXX not all users are chcecking the return value, convert
-	 * to down_write_killable after they are able to cope with
-	 * error
-	 */
-	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+	if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
+		return -EINTR;
+
 	ret = do_brk(addr, len);
 	populate = ((mm->def_flags & VM_LOCKED) != 0);
 	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
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