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-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index a6879f22eb3..223d9ccb7d6 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -323,11 +323,12 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p)
/*
* kill all processes that share the ->mm (i.e. all threads),
- * but are in a different thread group.
+ * but are in a different thread group. Don't let them have access
+ * to memory reserves though, otherwise we might deplete all memory.
*/
do_each_thread(g, q) {
if (q->mm == mm && q->tgid != p->tgid)
- __oom_kill_task(q, 1);
+ force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
} while_each_thread(g, q);
return 0;