> >On 2018/10/08 15:14, Yong-Taek Lee wrote: >>> On 2018/10/08 10:19, Yong-Taek Lee wrote: >>>> @@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ static int __set_oom_adj(struct file *file, int oom_adj, bool legacy) >>>> struct mm_struct *mm = NULL; >>>> struct task_struct *task; >>>> int err = 0; >>>> + int mm_users = 0; >>>> >>>> task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file)); >>>> if (!task) >>>> @@ -1092,7 +1093,8 @@ static int __set_oom_adj(struct file *file, int oom_adj, bool legacy) >>>> struct task_struct *p = find_lock_task_mm(task); >>>> >>>> if (p) { >>>> - if (atomic_read(&p->mm->mm_users) > 1) { >>>> + mm_users = atomic_read(&p->mm->mm_users); >>>> + if ((mm_users > 1) && (mm_users != get_nr_threads(p))) { >>> >>> How can this work (even before this patch)? When clone(CLONE_VM without CLONE_THREAD/CLONE_SIGHAND) >>> is requested, copy_process() calls copy_signal() in order to copy sig->oom_score_adj and >>> sig->oom_score_adj_min before calling copy_mm() in order to increment mm->mm_users, doesn't it? >>> Then, we will get two different "struct signal_struct" with different oom_score_adj/oom_score_adj_min >>> but one "struct mm_struct" shared by two thread groups. >>> >> >> Are you talking about race between __set_oom_adj and copy_process? >> If so, i agree with your opinion. It can not set oom_score_adj properly for copied process if __set_oom_adj >> check mm_users before copy_process calls copy_mm after copy_signal. Please correct me if i misunderstood anything. > > You understand it correctly. > > Reversing copy_signal() and copy_mm() is not sufficient either. We need to use a read/write lock > (read lock for copy_process() and write lock for __set_oom_adj()) in order to make sure that > the thread created by clone() becomes reachable from for_each_process() path in __set_oom_adj(). > Thank you for your suggestion. But i think it would be better to seperate to 2 issues. How about think these issues separately because there are no dependency between race issue and my patch. As i already explained, for_each_process path is meaningless if there is only one thread group with many threads(mm_users > 1 but no other thread group sharing same mm). Do you have any other idea to avoid meaningless loop ? >> >>>> mm = p->mm; >>>> atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count); >>>> } >> >