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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2016-06-03 14:55:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-06-03 16:02:56 -0700 |
| commit | cbdcf7f78900625de35173961b9b95cde22bce45 (patch) | |
| tree | 313e8398a476f95583156893e8459c3f3592201a /Documentation | |
| parent | 83b9355bf6f449c7d1231206c300ea89d3313a9d (diff) | |
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: 3ef22dfff239 ("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>
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