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Message-ID: <20120626011815.11323.5533.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:18:15 -0700
From: Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>
To: a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sched: fix fork() error path to not crash.
In dup_task_struct, if arch_dup_task_struct fails, the clean up
code fails to clean up correctly. That's because the clean up
code depends on unininitalized ti->task pointer. We fix this
by making sure that the task and thread_info know about each other
before we attempt to take the error path.
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>
---
kernel/fork.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ab5211b..f00e319 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -304,12 +304,17 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
}
err = arch_dup_task_struct(tsk, orig);
- if (err)
- goto out;
+ /*
+ * We defer looking at err, because we will need this setup
+ * for the clean up path to work correctly.
+ */
tsk->stack = ti;
-
setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig);
+
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+
clear_user_return_notifier(tsk);
clear_tsk_need_resched(tsk);
stackend = end_of_stack(tsk);
--
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