Commit cef1d352 authored Aug 09, 2010 by KOSAKI Motohiro Committed by Linus Torvalds Aug 09, 2010

oom: multi threaded process coredump don't make deadlock



Oleg pointed out current PF_EXITING check is wrong. Because PF_EXITING
is per-thread flag, not per-process flag. He said,

   Two threads, group-leader L and its sub-thread T. T dumps the code.
   In this case both threads have ->mm != NULL, L has PF_EXITING.

   The first problem is, select_bad_process() always return -1 in this
   case (even if the caller is T, this doesn't matter).

   The second problem is that we should add TIF_MEMDIE to T, not L.

I think we can remove this dubious PF_EXITING check. but as first step,
This patch add the protection of multi threaded issue.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 93b43fa5

mm/oom_kill.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ 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) && p->mm) {
		if (thread_group_empty(p) && (p->flags & PF_EXITING) && p->mm) {
		if (p != current)
		return ERR_PTR(-1UL);

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