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: 3ef22dff ("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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