[Patch] freezer: check OOM kill signal while being frozen

From: Cong Wang
Date: Fri Aug 08 2014 - 20:47:13 EST


There is a race condition between OOM killer and freezer when
they try to operate on the same process, something like below:

Process A Process B Process C
trigger oom
B=oom_scan_process_thread()
cgroup_freezer_freeze(B)
...
try_to_freeze()
stay in D state
oom_kill_process(B)

In this case, process A triggers OOM and kernel selects process B
as the victim, right before being killed process B was frozen by
process C therefore went to D state, then kernel sent SIGKILL but
it is already too late as process B will never care about pending
signals any more. Fix this straightly by checking fatal pending signal
from OOM killer, so that the frozen process will recover itself
and then be killed finally.

Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/kernel/freezer.c b/kernel/freezer.c
index aa6a8aa..c6d189d 100644
--- a/kernel/freezer.c
+++ b/kernel/freezer.c
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ bool __refrigerator(bool check_kthr_stop)
spin_lock_irq(&freezer_lock);
current->flags |= PF_FROZEN;
if (!freezing(current) ||
- (check_kthr_stop && kthread_should_stop()))
+ (check_kthr_stop && kthread_should_stop()) ||
+ (test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_MEMDIE) &&
+ fatal_signal_pending(current)))
current->flags &= ~PF_FROZEN;
spin_unlock_irq(&freezer_lock);

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