On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> find_lock_task_mm() expects it is called under rcu or tasklist lock,
> but it seems that at least oom_unkillable_task()->task_in_mem_cgroup()
> and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory()->oom_badness() can call it lockless.
> 
> Perhaps we could fix the callers, but this patch simply adds rcu lock
> into find_lock_task_mm(). This also allows to simplify a bit one of its
> callers, oom_kill_process().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
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