On 10/05, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > oom_kill_process() does atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users) to ensure that > this ->mm can't go away and this is wrong, change it to rely on > ->mm_count and mmdrop(). > > Firstly, we do not want to delay exit_mmap/etc if the victim exits > before we do mmput(), but this is minor. > > More importantly, we simply can not do mmput() in oom_kill_process(), > this can deadlock. For example, suppose that access_process_vm(tsk) > triggers OOM and oom-killer decides to kill this "tsk". If it exits > and does mmput() before us, ksm_exit() called by us may want to want > to take the same mmap_sem for writing.
Self nack to the changelog ;) I still think the patch is fine, I'll resend it. But the changelog is wrong, in the case above access_process_vm() adds another reference to ->mm_users, so mmput() can never lead to mm_users == 0. > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> > --- > mm/oom_kill.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c > index 034d219..52abb78 100644 > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c > @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct > task_struct *p, > > /* Get a reference to safely compare mm after task_unlock(victim) */ > mm = victim->mm; > - atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users); > + atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count); > /* > * We should send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE in order to prevent > * the OOM victim from depleting the memory reserves from the user > @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct > task_struct *p, > } > rcu_read_unlock(); > > - mmput(mm); > + mmdrop(mm); > put_task_struct(victim); > } > #undef K > -- > 2.4.3 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
