• Roland McGrath's avatar
    execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments · 9aea5a65
    Roland McGrath authored
    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: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    9aea5a65
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