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
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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:
