linux-kernel - [GIT pull] core fix for 4.9

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Date:   Sat, 5 Nov 2016 10:15:39 -0600 (MDT)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [GIT pull] core fix for 4.9

Linus,

please pull the latest core-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core-urgent-for-linus

Add a sanity check into release_task_stack() to catch problems with task
stack references. 

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Andy Lutomirski (1):
      fork: Add task stack refcounting sanity check and prevent premature task stack freeing


 kernel/fork.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

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 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	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: