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author | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2011-01-10 09:46:24 +1100 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2011-01-10 09:46:24 +1100 |
commit | d2e7ad19229f982fc1eb731827d82ceac90abfb3 (patch) | |
tree | 98a3741b4d4b27a48b3c7ea9babe331e539416a8 /kernel/exit.c | |
parent | d03a5d888fb688c832d470b749acc5ed38e0bc1d (diff) | |
parent | 0c21e3aaf6ae85bee804a325aa29c325209180fd (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
security/smack/smack_lsm.c
Verified and added fix by Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Ok'd by Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 21aa7b3001f..89c74861a3d 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static void __unhash_process(struct task_struct *p, bool group_dead) list_del_rcu(&p->tasks); list_del_init(&p->sibling); - __get_cpu_var(process_counts)--; + __this_cpu_dec(process_counts); } list_del_rcu(&p->thread_group); } @@ -914,6 +914,15 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code) if (unlikely(!tsk->pid)) panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!"); + /* + * If do_exit is called because this processes oopsed, it's possible + * that get_fs() was left as KERNEL_DS, so reset it to USER_DS before + * continuing. Amongst other possible reasons, this is to prevent + * mm_release()->clear_child_tid() from writing to a user-controlled + * kernel address. + */ + set_fs(USER_DS); + tracehook_report_exit(&code); validate_creds_for_do_exit(tsk); |