mm, oom: remove task_lock protecting comm printing

The oom killer takes task_lock() in a couple of places solely to protect
printing the task's comm.

A process's comm, including current's comm, may change due to
/proc/pid/comm or PR_SET_NAME.

The comm will always be NULL-terminated, so the worst race scenario would
only be during update.  We can tolerate a comm being printed that is in
the middle of an update to avoid taking the lock.

Other locations in the kernel have already dropped task_lock() when
printing comm, so this is consistent.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index c170d9f0a158..58f3d2748ced 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -377,13 +377,11 @@ static void dump_tasks(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const nodemask_t *nodemask)
 static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
 			struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
-	task_lock(current);
 	pr_warning("%s invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x%x, order=%d, "
 		"oom_score_adj=%hd\n",
 		current->comm, oc->gfp_mask, oc->order,
 		current->signal->oom_score_adj);
-	cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(current);
-	task_unlock(current);
+	cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed();
 	dump_stack();
 	if (memcg)
 		mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(memcg, p);
@@ -509,10 +507,8 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
 	if (__ratelimit(&oom_rs))
 		dump_header(oc, p, memcg);
 
-	task_lock(p);
 	pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) score %u or sacrifice child\n",
 		message, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, points);
-	task_unlock(p);
 
 	/*
 	 * If any of p's children has a different mm and is eligible for kill,
@@ -586,10 +582,8 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
 			if (fatal_signal_pending(p))
 				continue;
 
-			task_lock(p);	/* Protect ->comm from prctl() */
 			pr_info("Kill process %d (%s) sharing same memory\n",
 				task_pid_nr(p), p->comm);
-			task_unlock(p);
 			do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, p, true);
 		}
 	rcu_read_unlock();