From cef1d3523d33ebc35fc29e454b1f4bab953fabbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:19:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] oom: multi threaded process coredump don't make deadlock Oleg pointed out current PF_EXITING check is wrong. Because PF_EXITING is per-thread flag, not per-process flag. He said, Two threads, group-leader L and its sub-thread T. T dumps the code. In this case both threads have ->mm != NULL, L has PF_EXITING. The first problem is, select_bad_process() always return -1 in this case (even if the caller is T, this doesn't matter). The second problem is that we should add TIF_MEMDIE to T, not L. I think we can remove this dubious PF_EXITING check. but as first step, This patch add the protection of multi threaded issue. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 31bd0c344fa7..0a4ca8a0234b 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_process(unsigned long *ppoints, * the process of exiting and releasing its resources. * Otherwise we could get an easy OOM deadlock. */ - if ((p->flags & PF_EXITING) && p->mm) { + if (thread_group_empty(p) && (p->flags & PF_EXITING) && p->mm) { if (p != current) return ERR_PTR(-1UL); -- 2.34.1