Re: [PATCH] Fix race between oom kill and task exit

[David Rientjes]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > > OK, I am going to send the initial fixes today. This means (I hope)
> > > that we do not need this or Sameer's "[PATCH] mm, oom: Fix race when
> > > selecting process to kill".
> >
> > Your v2 series looks good and I suspect anybody trying them doesn't have
> > additional reports of the infinite loop?  Should they be marked for
> > stable?
> 
> Unlikely...
> 
> I think the patch from Sameer makes more sense for stable as a temporary
> (and obviously incomplete) fix.
> 

There's a problem because none of this is currently even in linux-next.  I 
think we could make a case for getting Sameer's patch at 
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138436313021133 to be merged for 
stable, but then we'd have to revert it in linux-next before merging your 
series at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138616217925981.  All of the 
issues you present in that series seem to be stable material, so why not 
just go ahead with your series and mark it for stable for 3.13?
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