linux/fs
Roland McGrath 9aea5a65aa execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments
An execve with a very large total of argument/environment strings
can take a really long time in the execve system call.  It runs
uninterruptibly to count and copy all the strings.  This change
makes it abort the exec quickly if sent a SIGKILL.

Note that this is the conservative change, to interrupt only for
SIGKILL, by using fatal_signal_pending().  It would be perfectly
correct semantics to let any signal interrupt the string-copying in
execve, i.e. use signal_pending() instead of fatal_signal_pending().
We'll save that change for later, since it could have user-visible
consequences, such as having a timer set too quickly make it so that
an execve can never complete, though it always happened to work before.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10 08:10:26 -07:00
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9p 9p: potential ERR_PTR() dereference 2010-08-30 10:35:28 -05:00
adfs check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok 2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
affs AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed 2010-08-09 16:48:51 -04:00
afs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2010-08-13 10:37:30 -07:00
autofs autofs/autofs4: Move compat_ioctl handling into fs 2010-08-09 00:13:34 +02:00
autofs4 autofs4: remove unneeded null check in try_to_fill_dentry() 2010-08-11 08:59:06 -07:00
befs fix typos concerning "initiali[zs]e" 2010-06-16 18:05:05 +02:00
bfs BFS: clean up the superblock usage 2010-08-09 16:48:53 -04:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-08-10 15:22:42 -07:00
cachefiles Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks 2010-08-12 09:51:35 -07:00
ceph ceph: fix get_ticket_handler() error handling 2010-08-26 09:26:50 -07:00
cifs Cannot allocate memory error on mount 2010-08-26 16:53:27 +00:00
coda Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-08-10 15:22:42 -07:00
configfs fix setattr error handling in sysfs, configfs 2010-06-04 17:16:29 -04:00
cramfs cramfs: only unlock new inodes 2010-08-18 01:01:33 -04:00
debugfs Add x64 support to debugfs 2010-05-19 22:41:57 -04:00
devpts Simplify devpts_get_sb() failure exits 2010-05-21 18:31:12 -04:00
dlm fs/dlm: Drop unnecessary null test 2010-08-05 14:23:45 -05:00
ecryptfs eCryptfs: Fix encrypted file name lookup regression 2010-08-27 10:50:53 -05:00
efs
exofs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd 2010-08-11 09:19:43 -07:00
exportfs
ext2 mbcache: Remove unused features 2010-08-09 16:48:45 -04:00
ext3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
ext4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
fat remove SWRITE* I/O types 2010-08-18 01:09:01 -04:00
freevxfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
fscache Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks 2010-08-12 09:51:35 -07:00
fuse fuse: fix lock annotations 2010-09-07 13:42:41 +02:00
gfs2 Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-08-10 15:22:42 -07:00
hfs convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() 2010-08-09 16:48:37 -04:00
hfsplus convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() 2010-08-09 16:48:37 -04:00
hostfs hostfs ->follow_link() braino 2010-08-18 06:21:10 -04:00
hpfs switch hpfs to ->evict_inode() 2010-08-09 16:48:17 -04:00
hppfs switch hppfs to ->evict_inode() 2010-08-09 16:48:16 -04:00
hugetlbfs new helper: end_writeback() 2010-08-09 16:47:49 -04:00
isofs isofs: Fix lseek() to position beyond 4 GB 2010-08-11 00:29:47 -04:00
jbd remove SWRITE* I/O types 2010-08-18 01:09:01 -04:00
jbd2 remove SWRITE* I/O types 2010-08-18 01:09:01 -04:00
jffs2 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2010-08-10 11:49:21 -07:00
jfs jfs: don't allow os2 xattr namespace overlap with others 2010-08-10 15:33:09 -07:00
lockd include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
logfs logfs: kill BKL 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
minix minix: fix regression in minix_mkdir() 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
ncpfs Merge branch 'bkl/ioctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing 2010-08-10 13:58:28 -07:00
nfs Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 2010-08-18 15:45:23 -07:00
nfs_common include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
nfsd Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2010-09-07 19:21:02 -07:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: fix leak of shadow dat inode in error path of load_nilfs 2010-08-30 10:18:03 +09:00
nls
notify fsnotify: drop two useless bools in the fnsotify main loop 2010-08-27 21:42:11 -04:00
ntfs convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() 2010-08-09 16:48:37 -04:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: Fix orphan add in ocfs2_create_inode_in_orphan 2010-09-08 14:26:00 +08:00
omfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcopeland/omfs 2010-08-10 11:47:36 -07:00
openpromfs
partitions [S390] partitions: fix build error in ibm partition detection code 2010-08-13 10:06:55 +02:00
proc proc: export uncached bit properly in /proc/kpageflags 2010-09-09 18:57:23 -07:00
qnx4 get rid of cont_write_begin_newtrunc 2010-08-09 16:47:31 -04:00
quota Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
ramfs check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok 2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
reiserfs remove SWRITE* I/O types 2010-08-18 01:09:01 -04:00
romfs
smbfs switch smbfs to evict_inode() 2010-08-09 16:48:00 -04:00
squashfs Squashfs: fix checkpatch.pl warnings 2010-08-08 22:29:33 +00:00
sysfs sysfs: checking for NULL instead of ERR_PTR 2010-09-03 17:26:28 -07:00
sysv fs/sysv/super.c: add support for non-PDP11 v7 filesystems 2010-08-11 08:59:23 -07:00
ubifs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
udf Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
ufs remove SWRITE* I/O types 2010-08-18 01:09:01 -04:00
xfs Merge branch '2.6.36-xfs-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/xfsdev 2010-09-03 09:02:32 -05:00
aio.c aio: fix wrong subsystem comments 2010-08-05 13:21:23 -07:00
anon_inodes.c Revert "anon_inode: set S_IFREG on the anon_inode" 2010-05-27 22:03:05 -04:00
attr.c check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok 2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
bad_inode.c bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
binfmt_aout.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c binfmt_elf_fdpic: Fix clear_user() error handling 2010-06-01 08:11:06 -07:00
binfmt_elf.c coredump: pass mm->flags as a coredump parameter for consistency 2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
binfmt_em86.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
binfmt_flat.c flat: tweak default stack alignment 2010-06-29 15:29:31 -07:00
binfmt_misc.c binfmt_misc: fix binfmt_misc priority 2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
binfmt_script.c Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure 2010-08-23 13:36:59 +02:00
bio.c block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request 2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
block_dev.c blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix 2010-08-11 08:59:18 -07:00
buffer.c remove SWRITE* I/O types 2010-08-18 01:09:01 -04:00
char_dev.c Fix init ordering of /dev/console vs callers of modprobe 2010-08-06 09:17:02 -07:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c elf coredump: replace ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* macros by functions 2010-03-06 11:26:45 -08:00
compat_ioctl.c bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
compat.c Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const 2010-08-13 16:53:13 -07:00
dcache.c fs: brlock vfsmount_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c O_DIRECT: fix the splitting up of contiguous I/O 2010-09-09 18:57:22 -07:00
drop_caches.c simplify checks for I_CLEAR/I_FREEING 2010-08-09 16:47:44 -04:00
eventfd.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
eventpoll.c sched, wait: Use wrapper functions 2010-05-11 17:43:58 +02:00
exec.c execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments 2010-09-10 08:10:26 -07:00
fcntl.c vfs: take O_NONBLOCK out of the O_* uniqueness test 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
fifo.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
file_table.c fs: scale files_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
file.c vfs: use kmalloc() to allocate fdmem if possible 2010-08-11 08:59:02 -07:00
filesystems.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
fs_struct.c fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock 2010-08-18 08:35:46 -04:00
fs-writeback.c writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread 2010-08-28 08:52:10 +02:00
generic_acl.c vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl 2010-08-18 01:04:22 -04:00
inode.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify 2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
internal.h fs: brlock vfsmount_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
ioctl.c bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
ioprio.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Kconfig fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace 2010-07-20 17:30:22 +02:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok 2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
locks.c Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
Makefile Take statfs variants to fs/statfs.c 2010-05-21 18:31:17 -04:00
mbcache.c mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries 2010-08-18 06:24:41 -04:00
mpage.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
namei.c fs: brlock vfsmount_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
namespace.c VFS: Sanity check mount flags passed to change_mnt_propagation() 2010-09-07 13:46:20 -07:00
nfsctl.c Switch may_open() and break_lease() to passing O_... 2010-03-03 13:00:21 -05:00
no-block.c
open.c fs: cleanup files_lock locking 2010-08-18 08:35:47 -04:00
pipe.c pipe: fix check in "set size" fcntl 2010-06-10 19:08:34 +02:00
pnode.c fs: brlock vfsmount_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
pnode.h VFS: Clean up shared mount flag propagation 2010-03-03 14:07:55 -05:00
posix_acl.c
read_write.c fsnotify: pass a file instead of an inode to open, read, and write 2010-07-28 09:58:32 -04:00
read_write.h
readdir.c vfs: fix warning: 'dirent' is used uninitialized in this function 2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
select.c Add generic sys_old_select() 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
seq_file.c seq_file: fix new kernel-doc warnings 2010-03-07 15:48:26 -08:00
signalfd.c signalfd: fill in ssi_int for posix timers and message queues 2010-08-11 08:59:20 -07:00
splice.c splice: fix misuse of SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK 2010-08-07 18:52:56 +02:00
stack.c
stat.c Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const 2010-08-13 16:53:13 -07:00
statfs.c add f_flags to struct statfs(64) 2010-08-09 16:48:44 -04:00
super.c fs: scale files_lock 2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
sync.c get rid of file_fsync() 2010-08-09 16:47:43 -04:00
timerfd.c fs/timerfd.c: make use of wait_event_interruptible_locked_irq() 2010-05-20 13:21:42 -07:00
utimes.c Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const 2010-08-13 16:53:13 -07:00
xattr_acl.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
xattr.c fs: xattr_handler table should be const 2010-05-21 18:31:18 -04:00