Re: [PATCH 07/18] mm, proc: make clear_refs killable

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Feb 29 2016 - 12:58:28 EST


On 02/29, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> On Mon 29-02-16 18:38:45, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > In this case you do not need put_task_struct().
>
> Why not? Both are after get_proc_task which takes a reference to the
> task...

Yes, but we already have put_task_struct(task) in the "out_mm" path, so
"goto out_mm" should work just fine?

Oleg.