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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-12-22 17:57:02 (GMT)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-12-22 17:57:02 (GMT)
commit4b7bd364700d9ac8372eff48832062b936d0793b (patch)
tree0dbf78c95456a0b02d07fcd473281f04a87e266d /kernel/exit.c
parentc0d8768af260e2cbb4bf659ae6094a262c86b085 (diff)
parent90a8a73c06cc32b609a880d48449d7083327e11a (diff)
downloadlinux-4b7bd364700d9ac8372eff48832062b936d0793b.tar.xz
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too outdated.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index b194feb..676149a 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
sig->tty = NULL;
} else {
/*
+ * This can only happen if the caller is de_thread().
+ * FIXME: this is the temporary hack, we should teach
+ * posix-cpu-timers to handle this case correctly.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(has_group_leader_pid(tsk)))
+ posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(tsk);
+
+ /*
* If there is any task waiting for the group exit
* then notify it:
*/
@@ -906,6 +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);