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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index caea788628e4..c313afcc8e5a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2308,6 +2308,10 @@ rebalance:
if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) {
if (oom_killer_disabled)
goto nopage;
+ /* Coredumps can quickly deplete all memory reserves */
+ if ((current->flags & PF_DUMPCORE) &&
+ !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
+ goto nopage;
page = __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_mask, order,
zonelist, high_zoneidx,
nodemask, preferred_zone,