[PATCH] oom fix: prevent oom from killing a process with children/sibling unkillable

Looking at oom_kill.c, found that the intention to not kill the selected
process if any of its children/siblings has OOM_DISABLE set, is not being
met.

Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index b278b8d..2f39169 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p)
         * Don't kill the process if any threads are set to OOM_DISABLE
         */
        do_each_thread(g, q) {
-               if (q->mm == mm && p->oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE)
+               if (q->mm == mm && q->oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE)
                        return 1;
        } while_each_thread(g, q);