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Commit cbdcf7f7 authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: 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: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 83b9355b
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