It's pointless to try to kill current if select_bad_process() did not find an eligible task to kill in mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() since it's guaranteed that current is a member of the memcg that is oom and it is, by definition, unkillable. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 5 +---- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -500,12 +500,9 @@ void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask) read_lock(&tasklist_lock); retry: p = select_bad_process(&points, limit, mem, CONSTRAINT_NONE, NULL); - if (PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL) + if (!p || PTR_ERR(p) == -1UL) goto out; - if (!p) - p = current; - if (oom_kill_process(p, gfp_mask, 0, points, limit, mem, "Memory cgroup out of memory")) goto retry; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>