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authorJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2016-11-14 09:34:01 +1100
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>2016-11-14 09:34:01 +1100
commit185c0f26c0267d5978b5c30d3a04f90cb245cd76 (patch)
tree4b1324c9445bbcff095fb3ce755ec46d315bda5a /kernel/fork.c
parenteafb7b9d01a7001ff8e9624e7dcb706844f981b3 (diff)
parenta25f0944ba9b1d8a6813fd6f1a86f1bd59ac25a6 (diff)
Merge commit 'v4.9-rc5' into next
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 623259fc794d..997ac1d584f7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
static void release_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
+ if (WARN_ON(tsk->state != TASK_DEAD))
+ return; /* Better to leak the stack than to free prematurely */
+
account_kernel_stack(tsk, -1);
arch_release_thread_stack(tsk->stack);
free_thread_stack(tsk);
@@ -1862,6 +1865,7 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_count:
atomic_dec(&p->cred->user->processes);
exit_creds(p);
bad_fork_free:
+ p->state = TASK_DEAD;
put_task_stack(p);
free_task(p);
fork_out: