To clarify, I am not going to review this patch ;) As I said many times I can only understand what oom_kill.c does, but now why. On 06/06, David Rientjes wrote: > > It's unnecessary to SIGKILL a task that is already PF_EXITING This probably needs some explanation. PF_EXITING doesn't necessarily mean this process is exiting. > and can > actually cause a NULL pointer dereference of the sighand Yes. Another reason to avoid force_sig(). Oleg. -- 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>