From 79ffdfc6522ae33d8a33e971070c08ee5f27439b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirill Tkhai Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:17:20 +0300 Subject: net: Add rtnl_lock_killable() rtnl_lock() is widely used mutex in kernel. Some of kernel code does memory allocations under it. In case of memory deficit this may invoke OOM killer, but the problem is a killed task can't exit if it's waiting for the mutex. This may be a reason of deadlock and panic. This patch adds a new primitive, which responds on SIGKILL, and it allows to use it in the places, where we don't want to sleep forever. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/rtnetlink.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h index 3573b4bf2fdf..562a175c35a9 100644 --- a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h +++ b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ extern void rtnl_lock(void); extern void rtnl_unlock(void); extern int rtnl_trylock(void); extern int rtnl_is_locked(void); +extern int rtnl_lock_killable(void); extern wait_queue_head_t netdev_unregistering_wq; extern struct rw_semaphore net_sem; -- cgit v1.2.3-71-gd317