The patch titled Subject: oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was oom-fix-integer-overflow-of-points-in-oom_badness.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness An integer overflow will happen on 64bit archs if task's sum of rss, swapents and nr_ptes exceeds (2^31)/1000 value. This was introduced by commit f755a04 oom: use pte pages in OOM score where the oom score computation was divided into several steps and it's no longer computed as one expression in unsigned long(rss, swapents, nr_pte are unsigned long), where the result value assigned to points(int) is in range(1..1000). So there could be an int overflow while computing 176 points *= 1000; and points may have negative value. Meaning the oom score for a mem hog task will be one. 196 if (points <= 0) 197 return 1; For example: [ 3366] 0 3366 35390480 24303939 5 0 0 oom01 Out of memory: Kill process 3366 (oom01) score 1 or sacrifice child Here the oom1 process consumes more than 24303939(rss)*4096~=92GB physical memory, but it's oom score is one. In this situation the mem hog task is skipped and oom killer kills another and most probably innocent task with oom score greater than one. The points variable should be of type long instead of int to prevent the int overflow. Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.36+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-fix-integer-overflow-of-points-in-oom_badness mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-fix-integer-overflow-of-points-in-oom_badness +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static bool oom_unkillable_task(struct t unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem, const nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned long totalpages) { - int points; + long points; if (oom_unkillable_task(p, mem, nodemask)) return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fhrbata@xxxxxxxxxx are -- 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