The patch titled
Subject: mm/oom_kill.c: avoid attempting to kill init sharing same memory
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
oom-kill-init-lead-panic.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/oom-kill-init-lead-panic.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/oom-kill-init-lead-panic.patch
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From: Chen Jie <chenjie6@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/oom_kill.c: avoid attempting to kill init sharing same memory
It's possible that an oom killed victim shares an ->mm with the init
process and thus oom_kill_process() would end up trying to kill init as
well.
This has been shown in practice:
Out of memory: Kill process 9134 (init) score 3 or sacrifice child
Killed process 9134 (init) total-vm:1868kB, anon-rss:84kB, file-rss:572kB
Kill process 1 (init) sharing same memory
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009
And this will result in a kernel panic.
If a process is forked by init and selected for oom kill while still
sharing init_mm, then it's likely this system is in a recoverable state.
However, it's better not to try to kill init and allow the machine to
panic due to unkillable processes.
[rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Chen Jie <chenjie6@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-kill-init-lead-panic mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-kill-init-lead-panic
+++ a/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -608,6 +608,8 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control
continue;
if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
continue;
+ if (!is_global_init(p))
+ continue;
if (p->signal->oom_score_adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN)
continue;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from chenjie6@xxxxxxxxxx are
oom-kill-init-lead-panic.patch
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