[PATCH v2] /dev/mem: make reads and writes interruptible

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Thu Apr 07 2022 - 08:27:19 EST


In 8619e5bdeee8 ("/dev/mem: Bail out upon SIGKILL."), /dev/mem became
killable, and that commit noted:

Theoretically, reading/writing /dev/mem and /dev/kmem can become
"interruptible". But this patch chose "killable". Future patch will
make them "interruptible" so that we can revert to "killable" if
some program regressed.

So now we take the next step in making it "interruptible", by changing
fatal_signal_pending() into signal_pending().

Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes v1->v2:
- The commit message mentions only /dev/mem now, not /dev/kmem which was
removed.

drivers/char/mem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index cc296f0823bd..84ca98ed1dad 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static inline bool should_stop_iteration(void)
{
if (need_resched())
cond_resched();
- return fatal_signal_pending(current);
+ return signal_pending(current);
}

/*
--
2.35.1