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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>2017-05-29 09:22:07 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-19 22:48:55 +0200
commit8ecd71cd152bd3e08dc650c67ac7c600386a6a41 (patch)
tree1dbbd8689fdc07919e3530ce44ad9218de267ae2 /arch
parent798ef283a8dd73dea2ae8f817abe75255fde772c (diff)
kthread: fix boot hang (regression) on MIPS/OpenRISC
commit b0f5a8f32e8bbdaae1abb8abe2d3cbafaba57e08 upstream. This fixes a regression in commit 4d6501dce079 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 4d6501dce079. Fixes: 4d6501dce079c1eb6bf0b1d8f528a5e81770109e ("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> Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/kernel/process.c1
-rw-r--r--arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c2
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
index 354b99f56c1e..ed6cac4a4df0 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
@@ -115,7 +115,6 @@ int copy_thread(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;
diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c b/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
index 7095dfe7666b..962372143fda 100644
--- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
@@ -152,8 +152,6 @@ 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);