diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 02da660b7c25..38f89ac2df7f 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -852,8 +852,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
 			continue;
 		if (same_thread_group(p, victim))
 			continue;
-		if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) || is_global_init(p) ||
-		    p->signal->oom_score_adj == OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) {
+		if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) || is_global_init(p)) {
 			/*
 			 * We cannot use oom_reaper for the mm shared by this
 			 * process because it wouldn't get killed and so the