This was needed before to ensure that ->signal != 0 and do_each_thread() is safe, see the commit b95c35e76b29b for details.
Today tsk->signal can't go away and for_each_thread(tsk) is always safe. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> --- fs/proc/base.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index a11eb71..93e7754 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -579,11 +579,8 @@ static int proc_oom_score(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, unsigned long totalpages = totalram_pages + total_swap_pages; unsigned long points = 0; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - if (pid_alive(task)) - points = oom_badness(task, NULL, NULL, totalpages) * - 1000 / totalpages; - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + points = oom_badness(task, NULL, NULL, totalpages) * + 1000 / totalpages; seq_printf(m, "%lu\n", points); return 0; -- 2.5.0