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[Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves
the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the
results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-
trusty' to 'verification-done-trusty'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will
be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how
to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!


** Tags added: verification-needed-trusty

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592429

Title:
  trusty kernel crash in OOM killer related to cgroups

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The trusty kernel can crash if the OOM killer kills processes which
  have reached a memory limit imposed by cgroups. More details can be
  found in this blog post:

  https://community.nitrous.io/posts/stability-and-a-linux-oom-killer-
  bug

  The upstream patch series which ultimately landed in 3.14 is available
  at:

  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?id=4d4048be8a93769350efa31d2482a038b7de73d0&qt=range&q=9853a407b97d8d066b5a865173a4859a3e69fd8a...4d4048be8a93769350efa31d2482a038b7de73d0

  One of those four (0c740d0afc3bff0a097ad03a1c8df92757516f5c) is
  already part of the trusty kernel.

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