On Fri 08-08-14 17:46:38, Cong Wang wrote:
> There is a race condition between OOM killer and freezer when
> they try to operate on the same process, something like below:
> 
>       Process A       Process B               Process C
> trigger oom
> B=oom_scan_process_thread()
>                                       cgroup_freezer_freeze(B)
>                       ...
>                       try_to_freeze()
>                       stay in D state
> oom_kill_process(B)
> 
> In this case, process A triggers OOM and kernel selects process B
> as the victim, right before being killed process B was frozen by
> process C therefore went to D state, then kernel sent SIGKILL but
> it is already too late as process B will never care about pending
> signals any more.

OK, so the system/memcg is still OOM and a new allocation/charge
would trigger killer again, right? Then oom_scan_process_thread sees
TIF_MEMDIE frozen task and thaw it so it can go away and die. So this
shouldn't be a permanent state. Or am I missing something?

> Fix this straightly by checking fatal pending signal
> from OOM killer, so that the frozen process will recover itself
> and then be killed finally.
> 
> Cc: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <r...@rjwysocki.net>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/freezer.c b/kernel/freezer.c
> index aa6a8aa..c6d189d 100644
> --- a/kernel/freezer.c
> +++ b/kernel/freezer.c
> @@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ bool __refrigerator(bool check_kthr_stop)
>               spin_lock_irq(&freezer_lock);
>               current->flags |= PF_FROZEN;
>               if (!freezing(current) ||
> -                 (check_kthr_stop && kthread_should_stop()))
> +                 (check_kthr_stop && kthread_should_stop()) ||
> +                 (test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_MEMDIE) &&
> +                      fatal_signal_pending(current)))
>                       current->flags &= ~PF_FROZEN;
>               spin_unlock_irq(&freezer_lock);
>  

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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