On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:36:08PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > When we want to duplicate a new process, dup_task_struct() will undergo > a series of allocations. If alloc_thread_info_node() fails, we call > free_task_struct() and return. > > This seems right, but it is not. free_task_struct() will not only free > the task struct from the kmem_cache, but will also call > arch_release_task_struct(). The problem is that this function is > supposed to undo whatever arch-specific work done by > arch_dup_task_struct(), that is not yet called at this point. The > particular problem I ran accross was that in x86, we will arrive at > fpu_free() without having ever allocated it. > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glom...@parallels.com> > Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@redhat.com>
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