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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3 v3] oom: kill all threads sharing oom killed task's mm
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:16:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100823161620.7a46f2e1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008201651400.16947@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:52:38 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> +			pr_err("Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n",
> +				task_pid_nr(q), q->comm);

We're really supposed to use get_task_comm() when accessing another
tasks's comm[] to avoid races with that task altering its comm[] in
prctl().

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-23 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-20 22:41 [patch 1/3 v3] oom: add per-mm oom disable count David Rientjes
2010-08-20 22:41 ` [patch 2/3 v3] oom: avoid killing a task if a thread sharing its mm cannot be killed David Rientjes
2010-08-22  9:49   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-22 23:14     ` David Rientjes
2010-08-20 22:41 ` [patch 3/3 v3] oom: kill all threads sharing oom killed task's mm David Rientjes
2010-08-20 23:52   ` David Rientjes
2010-08-23 23:16     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-08-24  0:57       ` David Rientjes
2010-08-23 23:13 ` [patch 1/3 v3] oom: add per-mm oom disable count Andrew Morton
2010-08-24  0:53   ` David Rientjes
2010-08-27 21:48 ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-28 22:25   ` [patch] oom: fix locking for oom_adj and oom_score_adj David Rientjes
2010-08-30  4:39 ` [patch 1/3 v3] oom: add per-mm oom disable count KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-30 21:14   ` David Rientjes
2010-08-31 23:54     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-01 23:41       ` David Rientjes
2010-09-02  0:50         ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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