The patch titled Subject: mm, oom_reaper: do not use siglock in try_oom_reaper() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-oom_reaper-do-not-use-siglock-in-try_oom_reaper.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, oom_reaper: do not use siglock in try_oom_reaper() Oleg has noted that siglock usage in try_oom_reaper is both pointless and dangerous. signal_group_exit can be checked lockless. The problem is that sighand becomes NULL in __exit_signal so we can crash. Fixes: 3ef22dfff239 ("oom, oom_reaper: try to reap tasks which skip regular OOM killer path") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464679423-30218-1-git-send-email-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom_reaper-do-not-use-siglock-in-try_oom_reaper mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~mm-oom_reaper-do-not-use-siglock-in-try_oom_reaper +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -625,8 +625,6 @@ void try_oom_reaper(struct task_struct * if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) { rcu_read_lock(); for_each_process(p) { - bool exiting; - if (!process_shares_mm(p, mm)) continue; if (fatal_signal_pending(p)) @@ -636,10 +634,7 @@ void try_oom_reaper(struct task_struct * * If the task is exiting make sure the whole thread group * is exiting and cannot acces mm anymore. */ - spin_lock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock); - exiting = signal_group_exit(p->signal); - spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock); - if (exiting) + if (signal_group_exit(p->signal)) continue; /* Give up */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are tree-wide-get-rid-of-__gfp_repeat-for-order-0-allocations-part-i.patch x86-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch x86-efi-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arm-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arm64-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch arc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch mips-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch nios2-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch parisc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch score-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch powerpc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch sparc-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch s390-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch sh-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch tile-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch unicore32-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.patch jbd2-get-rid-of-superfluous-__gfp_repeat.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