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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>2019-07-11 20:59:50 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-07-31 07:27:09 +0200
commitaf0883f9dcf6603ca8d1a59d4baf930b7f90eeae (patch)
treebfc6de500cc11e8ebede8c7acea43912f76cb132 /kernel/locking
parent0d72bb853afc1076201ec705ce15662bddaf96af (diff)
proc: use down_read_killable mmap_sem for /proc/pid/maps
[ Upstream commit 8a713e7df3352b8d9392476e9cf29e4e185dac32 ] Do not remain stuck forever if something goes wrong. Using a killable lock permits cleanup of stuck tasks and simplifies investigation. This function is also used for /proc/pid/smaps. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156007493160.3335.14447544314127417266.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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