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 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Reported-by: syzbot <[email protected]> --- kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c index fd5c95f..2b25d95 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c @@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) { struct page *pages; + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) + return NULL; pages = alloc_pages(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_ZERO, order); if (pages) { unsigned int count, i; -- 1.8.3.1
