From: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> commit 7c3a6aedcd6aae0a32a527e68669f7dd667492d1 upstream.
syzbot found that a thread can stall for minutes inside kexec_load() after that thread was killed by SIGKILL [1]. It turned out that the reproducer was trying to allocate 2408MB of memory using kimage_alloc_page() from kimage_load_normal_segment(). Let's check for SIGKILL before doing memory allocation. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a0e3436829698d5824231251fad9d8e998f94f5e Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Reported-by: syzbot <[email protected]> Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c @@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_pages(g { struct page *pages; + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) + return NULL; pages = alloc_pages(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_ZERO, order); if (pages) { unsigned int count, i;

