From d003f371b27016354c392464819530d47a915765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:56:24 -0800 Subject: oom: don't assume that a coredumping thread will exit soon oom_kill.c assumes that PF_EXITING task should exit and free the memory soon. This is wrong in many ways and one important case is the coredump. A task can sleep in exit_mm() "forever" while the coredumping sub-thread can need more memory. Change the PF_EXITING checks to take SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP into account, we add the new trivial helper for that. Note: this is only the first step, this patch doesn't try to solve other problems. The SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is obviously racy, a task can participate in coredump after it was already observed in PF_EXITING state, so TIF_MEMDIE (which also blocks oom-killer) still can be wrongly set. fatal_signal_pending() can be true because of SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP so out_of_memory() and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() shouldn't blindly trust it. And even the name/usage of the new helper is confusing, an exiting thread can only free its ->mm if it is the only/last task in thread group. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Cong Wang Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/oom.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/oom.h') diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h index e8d6e1058723..853698c721f7 100644 --- a/include/linux/oom.h +++ b/include/linux/oom.h @@ -92,6 +92,17 @@ static inline bool oom_gfp_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask) extern struct task_struct *find_lock_task_mm(struct task_struct *p); +static inline bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task) +{ + /* + * A coredumping process may sleep for an extended period in exit_mm(), + * so the oom killer cannot assume that the process will promptly exit + * and release memory. + */ + return (task->flags & PF_EXITING) && + !(task->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP); +} + /* sysctls */ extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks; extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b