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kthread: fix boot hang (regression) on MIPS/OpenRISC 

This fixes a regression in commit 4d6501dce0 where I didn't notice
that MIPS and OpenRISC were reinitialising p->{set,clear}_child_tid to
NULL after our initialisation in copy_process().

We can simply get rid of the arch-specific initialisation here since it
is now always done in copy_process() before hitting copy_thread{,_tls}().

Review notes:

 - As far as I can tell, copy_process() is the only user of
   copy_thread_tls(), which is the only caller of copy_thread() for
   architectures that don't implement copy_thread_tls().

 - After this patch, there is no arch-specific code touching
   p->set_child_tid or p->clear_child_tid whatsoever.

 - It may look like MIPS/OpenRISC wanted to always have these fields be
   NULL, but that's not true, as copy_process() would unconditionally
   set them again _after_ calling copy_thread_tls() before commit
   4d6501dce0.

Fixes: 4d6501dce0 ("kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> # MIPS only
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Vegard Nossum 2017-05-29 09:22:07 +02:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5ed02dbb49
commit b0f5a8f32e
2 changed files with 0 additions and 3 deletions
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arch/mips/kernel/process.c
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@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
struct thread_info *ti = task_thread_info(p);
struct pt_regs *childregs, *regs = current_pt_regs();
unsigned long childksp;
p->set_child_tid = p->clear_child_tid = NULL;
childksp = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p) + THREAD_SIZE - 32;

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arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
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@ -167,8 +167,6 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp,
top_of_kernel_stack = sp;
p->set_child_tid = p->clear_child_tid = NULL;
/* Locate userspace context on stack... */
sp -= STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD; /* redzone */
sp -= sizeof(struct pt_regs);