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-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h26
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c6
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d99218a1e043..c0efd80ba40f 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1949,6 +1949,32 @@ static inline int tsk_nr_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p)
#define TNF_FAULT_LOCAL 0x08
#define TNF_MIGRATE_FAIL 0x10
+static inline bool in_vfork(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ bool ret;
+
+ /*
+ * need RCU to access ->real_parent if CLONE_VM was used along with
+ * CLONE_PARENT.
+ *
+ * We check real_parent->mm == tsk->mm because CLONE_VFORK does not
+ * imply CLONE_VM
+ *
+ * CLONE_VFORK can be used with CLONE_PARENT/CLONE_THREAD and thus
+ * ->real_parent is not necessarily the task doing vfork(), so in
+ * theory we can't rely on task_lock() if we want to dereference it.
+ *
+ * And in this case we can't trust the real_parent->mm == tsk->mm
+ * check, it can be false negative. But we do not care, if init or
+ * another oom-unkillable task does this it should blame itself.
+ */
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ ret = tsk->vfork_done && tsk->real_parent->mm == tsk->mm;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
extern void task_numa_fault(int last_node, int node, int pages, int flags);
extern pid_t task_numa_group_id(struct task_struct *p);
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index d8220c5603a5..02da660b7c25 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -176,11 +176,13 @@ unsigned long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
/*
* Do not even consider tasks which are explicitly marked oom
- * unkillable or have been already oom reaped.
+ * unkillable or have been already oom reaped or the are in
+ * the middle of vfork
*/
adj = (long)p->signal->oom_score_adj;
if (adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN ||
- test_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &p->mm->flags)) {
+ test_bit(MMF_OOM_REAPED, &p->mm->flags) ||
+ in_vfork(p)) {
task_unlock(p);
return 0;
}