From 9aea5a65aa7a1af9a4236dfaeb0088f1624f9919 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 19:37:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed