Hi Michal and David,
AFAICS, the null pointer is the task_struct of p in the dump_header.
Why don't we just add a if before printing the victim task's
informaiton.

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -438,14 +438,6 @@ static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc,
struct task_struct *p)

        cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed();
        mem_cgroup_print_oom_context(oc->memcg, p);
-       pr_cont(",task=%s,pid=%d,uid=%d\n", p->comm, p->pid,
-               from_kuid(&init_user_ns, task_uid(p)));
+      if (p)
+              pr_cont(",task=%s,pid=%d,uid=%d", p->comm, p->pid,
+                      from_kuid(&init_user_ns, task_uid(p)));
+     pr_cont("\n");
        if (is_memcg_oom(oc))
                mem_cgroup_print_oom_meminfo(oc->memcg);

Thanks
Zhoujian

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