freezer: Do not freeze tasks killed by OOM killer
authorCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Tue, 21 Oct 2014 07:27:12 +0000 (09:27 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:00:01 +0000 (09:00 -0800)
commit94956df9f7bb872d2fef673f6d0903d9c6d1590c
treea6702a09af0363ae59702780b0bc602aa1471f1c
parent4b019cc1ad058c1378563b8fefb3da63d2f56ec6
freezer: Do not freeze tasks killed by OOM killer

commit 51fae6da640edf9d266c94f36bc806c63c301991 upstream.

Since f660daac474c6f (oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen
before deferring) OOM killer relies on being able to thaw a frozen task
to handle OOM situation but a3201227f803 (freezer: make freezing() test
freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE) has reorganized the
code and stopped clearing freeze flag in __thaw_task. This means that
the target task only wakes up and goes into the fridge again because the
freezing condition hasn't changed for it. This reintroduces the bug
fixed by f660daac474c6f.

Fix the issue by checking for TIF_MEMDIE thread flag in
freezing_slow_path and exclude the task from freezing completely. If a
task was already frozen it would get woken by __thaw_task from OOM killer
and get out of freezer after rechecking freezing().

Changes since v1
- put TIF_MEMDIE check into freezing_slowpath rather than in __refrigerator
  as per Oleg
- return __thaw_task into oom_scan_process_thread because
  oom_kill_process will not wake task in the fridge because it is
  sleeping uninterruptible

[mhocko@suse.cz: rewrote the changelog]
Fixes: a3201227f803 (freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE)
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/freezer.c