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mm, oom_reaper: do not use siglock in try_oom_reaper() 

Oleg has noted that siglock usage in try_oom_reaper is both pointless
and dangerous.  signal_group_exit can be checked lockless.  The problem
is that sighand becomes NULL in __exit_signal so we can crash.

Fixes: 3ef22dfff2 ("oom, oom_reaper: try to reap tasks which skip regular OOM killer path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464679423-30218-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
steinar/wifi_calib_4_9_kernel
Michal Hocko 2016-06-03 14:55:55 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 83b9355bf6
commit cbdcf7f789
1 changed files with 1 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -625,8 +625,6 @@ void try_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk)
if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) {
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_process(p) {
bool exiting;
if (!process_shares_mm(p, mm))
continue;
if (fatal_signal_pending(p))
@ -636,10 +634,7 @@ void try_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk)
* If the task is exiting make sure the whole thread group
* is exiting and cannot acces mm anymore.
*/
spin_lock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
exiting = signal_group_exit(p->signal);
spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
if (exiting)
if (signal_group_exit(p->signal))
continue;
/* Give up */