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fork: Add task stack refcounting sanity check and prevent premature task stack freeing 

If something goes wrong with task stack refcounting and a stack
refcount hits zero too early, warn and leak it rather than
potentially freeing it early (and silently).

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f29119c783a9680a4b4656e751b6123917ace94b.1477926663.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
steinar/wifi_calib_4_9_kernel
Andy Lutomirski 2016-10-31 08:11:43 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 0c183d92b2
commit 405c075971
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@ -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 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_count:
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: