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Subject[PATCH 2/5] oom: select_bad_process: PF_EXITING check should take ->mm into account
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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: oom: select_bad_process: PF_EXITING check should take ->mm into account

select_bad_process() checks PF_EXITING to detect the task which is going
to release its memory, but the logic is very wrong.

- a single process P with the dead group leader disables
select_bad_process() completely, it will always return
ERR_PTR() while P can live forever

- if the PF_EXITING task has already released its ->mm
it doesn't make sense to expect it is goiing to free
more memory (except task_struct/etc)

Change the code to ignore the PF_EXITING tasks without ->mm.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> [rebase to latest -mm]
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 070b713..c87a6f4 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints,
* the process of exiting and releasing its resources.
* Otherwise we could get an easy OOM deadlock.
*/
- if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
+ if ((p->flags & PF_EXITING) && p->mm) {
if (p != current)
return ERR_PTR(-1UL);

--
1.6.5.2




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