The patch titled Subject: mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process-fix has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process-fix oom_kill_process() does atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users) to ensure that this ->mm can't go away and this is wrong, change it to rely on ->mm_count and mmdrop(). Firstly, we do not want to delay exit_mmap/etc if the victim exits before we do mmput(), but this is minor. More importantly, we simply can not do mmput() in oom_kill_process(), this can deadlock if (for example) the caller holds i_mmap_rwsem and mmput() actually leads to exit_mmap(); the victim can have this file mmaped and in this case unmap_vmas/free_pgtables paths will take the same lock for writing. And at least huge_pmd_share() does pmd_alloc() under i_mmap_rwsem because VM_HUGETLB memory is not reclaimable. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process-fix mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process-fix +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control /* Get a reference to safely compare mm after task_unlock(victim) */ mm = victim->mm; - atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users); + atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count); /* * We should send SIGKILL before setting TIF_MEMDIE in order to prevent * the OOM victim from depleting the memory reserves from the user @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control } rcu_read_unlock(); - mmput(mm); + mmdrop(mm); put_task_struct(victim); } #undef K _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are mmoom-fix-potentially-killing-unrelated-process.patch mm-fix-the-racy-mm-locked_vm-change-in.patch mm-add-the-struct-mm_struct-mm-local-into.patch mm-oom_kill-remove-the-wrong-fatal_signal_pending-check-in-oom_kill_process.patch mm-oom_kill-cleanup-the-kill-sharing-same-memory-loop.patch mm-oom_kill-fix-the-wrong-task-mm-==-mm-checks-in-oom_kill_process.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html