oom: make sure that TIF_MEMDIE is set under task_lock
OOM killer tries to exclude tasks which do not have mm_struct associated because killing such a task wouldn't help much. The OOM victim gets TIF_MEMDIE set to disable OOM killer while the current victim releases the memory and then enables the OOM killer again by dropping the flag. oom_kill_process is currently prone to a race condition when the OOM victim is already exiting and TIF_MEMDIE is set after the task releases its address space. This might theoretically lead to OOM livelock if the OOM victim blocks on an allocation later during exiting because it wouldn't kill any other process and the exiting one won't be able to exit. The situation is highly unlikely because the OOM victim is expected to release some memory which should help to sort out OOM situation. Fix this by checking task->mm and setting TIF_MEMDIE flag under task_lock which will serialize the OOM killer with exit_mm which sets task->mm to NULL. Setting the flag for current is not necessary because check and set is not racy. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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