[PATCH] oom: kthread infinite loop fix
Skip kernel threads, rather than having them return 0 from badness.
Theoretically, badness might truncate all results to 0, thus a kernel thread
might be picked first, causing an infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index f1aba7e..12cd473 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@
unsigned long points;
int releasing;
+ /* skip kernel threads */
+ if (!p->mm)
+ continue;
/* skip the init task with pid == 1 */
if (p->pid == 1)
continue;