mm/oom_kill: fix the wrong task->mm == mm checks in oom_kill_process()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:48:26 +0000 (18:48 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 03:34:48 +0000 (19:34 -0800)
commit4d7b3394f76ed72cfdec23ca5571dbab6ec41793
treec32212a9df243b5e96b694f8cb9abd51138e9b5c
parentc319025a6c79e532d862e3a0b9506ba316a4d13a
mm/oom_kill: fix the wrong task->mm == mm checks in oom_kill_process()

Both "child->mm == mm" and "p->mm != mm" checks in oom_kill_process() are
wrong.  task->mm can be NULL if the task is the exited group leader.  This
means in particular that "kill sharing same memory" loop can miss a
process with a zombie leader which uses the same ->mm.

Note: the process_has_mm(child, p->mm) check is still not 100% correct,
p->mm can be NULL too.  This is minor, but probably deserves a fix or a
comment anyway.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document process_shares_mm() a bit]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Kyle Walker <kwalker@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/oom_kill.c