mm, oom: tighten task_will_free_mem() locking
"mm, oom: fortify task_will_free_mem" has dropped task_lock around
task_will_free_mem in oom_kill_process bacause it assumed that a
potential race when the selected task exits will not be a problem as the
oom_reaper will call exit_oom_victim.
Tetsuo was objecting that nommu doesn't have oom_reaper so the race
would be still possible. The code would be racy and lockup prone
theoretically in other aspects without the oom reaper anyway so I didn't
considered this a big deal. But it seems that further changes I am
planning in this area will benefit from stable task->mm in this path as
well. So let's drop find_lock_task_mm from task_will_free_mem and call
it from under task_lock as we did previously. Just pull the task->mm !=
NULL check inside the function.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467201562-6709-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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