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authorJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2011-01-10 09:46:24 +1100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2011-01-10 09:46:24 +1100
commitd2e7ad19229f982fc1eb731827d82ceac90abfb3 (patch)
tree98a3741b4d4b27a48b3c7ea9babe331e539416a8 /kernel/exit.c
parentd03a5d888fb688c832d470b749acc5ed38e0bc1d (diff)
parent0c21e3aaf6ae85bee804a325aa29c325209180fd (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.c11
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);