linux-kernel - [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash

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Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:18:47 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, sqazi@...gle.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash

Commit-ID:  164c33c6adee609b8b9062cce4c10f764d0dce13
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/164c33c6adee609b8b9062cce4c10f764d0dce13
Author:     Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:18:15 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:57:32 +0200

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>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120626011815.11323.5533.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 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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