diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 31bd0c3..0a4ca8a 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
 		 * the process of exiting and releasing its resources.
 		 * Otherwise we could get an easy OOM deadlock.
 		 */
-		if ((p->flags & PF_EXITING) && p->mm) {
+		if (thread_group_empty(p) && (p->flags & PF_EXITING) && p->mm) {
 			if (p != current)
 				return ERR_PTR(-1UL);