Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] oom: don't assume that a coredumping thread will exit soon

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> oom_kill.c assumes that PF_EXITING task should exit and free the memory
> soon. This is wrong in many ways and one important case is the coredump.
> A task can sleep in exit_mm() "forever" while the coredumping sub-thread
> can need more memory.
> 
> Change the PF_EXITING checks to take SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP into account,
> we add the new trivial helper for that.
> 
> Note: this is only the first step, this patch doesn't try to solve other
> problems. The SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is obviously racy, a task can
> participate in coredump after it was already observed in PF_EXITING state,
> so TIF_MEMDIE (which also blocks oom-killer) still can be wrongly set.
> fatal_signal_pending() can be true because of SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP so
> out_of_memory() and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() shouldn't blindly trust it.
> And even the name/usage of the new helper is confusing, an exiting thread
> can only free its ->mm if it is the only/last task in thread group.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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