linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] sched/urgent for 5.17

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Date:   Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:09:44 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] sched/urgent for 5.17

Hi Linus,

following the discussion from last week, here's hopefully a better fix
for the task exposure race.

Pls pull,
thx.

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The following changes since commit 754e0b0e35608ed5206d6a67a791563c631cec07:

  Linux 5.17-rc4 (2022-02-13 12:13:30 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git tags/sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc5

for you to fetch changes up to b1e8206582f9d680cff7d04828708c8b6ab32957:

  sched: Fix yet more sched_fork() races (2022-02-19 11:11:05 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
- Fix task exposure order when forking tasks

----------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Zijlstra (1):
      sched: Fix yet more sched_fork() races

 include/linux/sched/task.h |  4 ++--
 kernel/fork.c              | 13 ++++++++++++-
 kernel/sched/core.c        | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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