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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-06-12 08:18:10 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-06-12 08:18:10 +0200
commit069a0f32c9ca75ec7f02146711ec1f5840a68cbf (patch)
tree0ee4fe0bdd706333192b26a0c43dda1481862bae /kernel/fork.c
parentaca4e68acf3a08561f2a413322cbb232edad8764 (diff)
parent32c1431eea4881a6b17bd7c639315010aeefa452 (diff)
Merge 4.12-rc5 into char-misc-next
We want the char/misc driver fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index aa1076c5e4a9..e53770d2bf95 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1577,6 +1577,18 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
if (!p)
goto fork_out;
+ /*
+ * This _must_ happen before we call free_task(), i.e. before we jump
+ * to any of the bad_fork_* labels. This is to avoid freeing
+ * p->set_child_tid which is (ab)used as a kthread's data pointer for
+ * kernel threads (PF_KTHREAD).
+ */
+ p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
+ /*
+ * Clear TID on mm_release()?
+ */
+ p->clear_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
+
ftrace_graph_init_task(p);
rt_mutex_init_task(p);
@@ -1743,11 +1755,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
}
}
- p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
- /*
- * Clear TID on mm_release()?
- */
- p->clear_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
p->plug = NULL;
#endif