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authorTetsuo Handa <[email protected]>2015-11-05 18:47:51 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800
commit880b768937e90c433c0c8254a22b1eb63df005a4 (patch)
tree168f70d6da86b57bd11a8cc6253c0689c76a700b /tools/perf/scripts/python
parent426fb5e72d92b868912e47a1e3ca2df6eabc3872 (diff)
mm/oom_kill.c: fix potentially killing unrelated process
At the for_each_process() loop in oom_kill_process(), we are comparing address of OOM victim's mm without holding a reference to that mm. If there are a lot of processes to compare or a lot of "Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory" messages to print, for_each_process() loop could take very long time. It is possible that meanwhile the OOM victim exits and releases its mm, and then mm is allocated with the same address and assigned to some unrelated process. When we hit such race, the unrelated process will be killed by error. To make sure that the OOM victim's mm does not go away until for_each_process() loop finishes, get a reference on the OOM victim's mm before calling task_unlock(victim). [[email protected]: several fixes] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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