summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/kernel/fork.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-06-06 22:20:08 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-06-06 22:20:08 -0400
commit216fe8f021e33c36e3b27c49c9f1951f6b037d7f (patch)
treea43daec41b4d3955e7a4f8d0ed0654a7c80527ec /kernel/fork.c
parent9747e2313838ee8f5d8073fd6aa7289255c3c51b (diff)
parentb29794ec95c6856b316c2295904208bf11ffddd9 (diff)
downloadlinux-stable-216fe8f021e33c36e3b27c49c9f1951f6b037d7f.tar.gz
linux-stable-216fe8f021e33c36e3b27c49c9f1951f6b037d7f.tar.bz2
linux-stable-216fe8f021e33c36e3b27c49c9f1951f6b037d7f.zip
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Just some simple overlapping changes in marvell PHY driver and the DSA core code. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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