| Date | Mon, 11 May 2009 14:11:38 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 05/11 -mmotm] oom: fix possible oom_dump_tasks NULL pointer |
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On Sun, 10 May 2009 15:07:16 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> When /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks is enabled, it is possible to get a NULL > pointer for tasks that have detached mm's since task_lock() is not held > during the tasklist scan.
ok. But a better changelog would have told us how the patch fixes the problem?
This patch series is partially core MM and partially drivers/staging. I don't normally handle staging things, so I'd need to be cherrypicking from this lot. Is there any interdependency between the two things?
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