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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2019-02-18 10:12:12 -0500
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2019-02-18 10:12:12 -0500
commit5f09bc8cc4010a3ea17c5881a62fc45192ebe7b0 (patch)
treec8e30ba4eaf357699ef97a786bf56661f4591be8 /kernel/fork.c
parent6fd369dd1cb65a032f1ab9227033ecb7b759656d (diff)
parenta3b22b9f11d9fbc48b0291ea92259a5a810e9438 (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.0-rc7' into patchwork
Linux 5.0-rc7 * tag 'v5.0-rc7': (1667 commits) Linux 5.0-rc7 Input: elan_i2c - add ACPI ID for touchpad in Lenovo V330-15ISK Input: st-keyscan - fix potential zalloc NULL dereference Input: apanel - switch to using brightness_set_blocking() powerpc/64s: Fix possible corruption on big endian due to pgd/pud_present() efi/arm: Revert "Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()" arm64, mm, efi: Account for GICv3 LPI tables in static memblock reserve table sunrpc: fix 4 more call sites that were using stack memory with a scatterlist include/linux/module.h: copy __init/__exit attrs to init/cleanup_module Compiler Attributes: add support for __copy (gcc >= 9) lib/crc32.c: mark crc32_le_base/__crc32c_le_base aliases as __pure auxdisplay: ht16k33: fix potential user-after-free on module unload x86/platform/UV: Use efi_runtime_lock to serialise BIOS calls i2c: bcm2835: Clear current buffer pointers and counts after a transfer i2c: cadence: Fix the hold bit setting drm: Use array_size() when creating lease dm thin: fix bug where bio that overwrites thin block ignores FUA Revert "exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string" Revert "gfs2: read journal in large chunks to locate the head" net: ethernet: freescale: set FEC ethtool regs version ... Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a60459947f18..b69248e6f0e0 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
+ tsk->stack = s->addr;
return s->addr;
}
@@ -1833,8 +1834,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
posix_cpu_timers_init(p);
- p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
- p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
p->io_context = NULL;
audit_set_context(p, NULL);
cgroup_fork(p);
@@ -2001,6 +2000,17 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
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!
*/