Revision 9aea5a65aa7a1af9a4236dfaeb0088f1624f9919 authored by Roland McGrath on 08 September 2010, 02:37:06 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 10 September 2010, 15:10:26 UTC
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>
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fabs.c -rw-r--r-- 274 bytes
fadd.c -rw-r--r-- 701 bytes
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fnmadds.c -rw-r--r-- 1.1 KB
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fres.c -rw-r--r-- 192 bytes
frsp.c -rw-r--r-- 490 bytes
frsqrte.c -rw-r--r-- 189 bytes
fsel.c -rw-r--r-- 748 bytes
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fsubs.c -rw-r--r-- 862 bytes
lfd.c -rw-r--r-- 346 bytes
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math_efp.c -rw-r--r-- 15.6 KB
mcrfs.c -rw-r--r-- 582 bytes
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