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| author | Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com> | 2019-03-28 11:16:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com> | 2019-03-28 11:16:26 +0100 |
| commit | 6f01eb5bf8e8110ab5f3a8e7b0f3abf19a205e4b (patch) | |
| tree | 4b3147335ed97e4b487fd84bcb7a959a38d9656e /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 8f234193b8cc35c44614e4a4b05f2d920ff562e4 (diff) | |
| parent | 6b50202a4d53bf527c640467bcff68b50a5e38a2 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v4.4.177' into toradex_vf_4.4-nextColibri-VF_LXDE-Image_2.8b6.183-20190331
This is the 4.4.177 stable release
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index dd2f79ac0771..e4b81913a998 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1411,8 +1411,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, posix_cpu_timers_init(p); - p->start_time = ktime_get_ns(); - p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns(); p->io_context = NULL; p->audit_context = NULL; cgroup_fork(p); @@ -1573,6 +1571,17 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, goto bad_fork_free_pid; /* + * From this point on we must avoid any synchronous user-space + * communication until we take the tasklist-lock. In particular, we do + * not want user-space to be able to predict the process start-time by + * stalling fork(2) after we recorded the start_time but before it is + * visible to the system. + */ + + p->start_time = ktime_get_ns(); + p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns(); + + /* * Make it visible to the rest of the system, but dont wake it up yet. * Need tasklist lock for parent etc handling! */ |