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Subject[094/102] oom: task->mm == NULL doesnt mean the memory was freed
3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit c027a474a68065391c8773f6e83ed5412657e369 upstream.

exit_mm() sets ->mm == NULL then it does mmput()->exit_mmap() which
frees the memory.

However select_bad_process() checks ->mm != NULL before TIF_MEMDIE,
so it continues to kill other tasks even if we have the oom-killed
task freeing its memory.

Change select_bad_process() to check ->mm after TIF_MEMDIE, but skip
the tasks which have already passed exit_notify() to ensure a zombie
with TIF_MEMDIE set can't block oom-killer. Alternatively we could
probably clear TIF_MEMDIE after exit_mmap().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
mm/oom_kill.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr
do_each_thread(g, p) {
unsigned int points;

- if (!p->mm)
+ if (p->exit_state)
continue;
if (oom_unkillable_task(p, mem, nodemask))
continue;
@@ -319,6 +319,8 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr
*/
if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE))
return ERR_PTR(-1UL);
+ if (!p->mm)
+ continue;

if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
/*



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