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authorMike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>2017-01-27 13:33:25 -0500
committerMike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>2017-01-27 13:33:25 -0500
commita1f817dc8ed79cdff2b76bc51d545fb9465982be (patch)
tree2c92b9b7cdf3b0efb3b9ce33cd6f84ef4d54a1a7 /kernel/fork.c
parentorangefs: Axe some dead code (diff)
parentLinux 4.9 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into for-next
Linux 4.9
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 623259fc794d..997ac1d584f7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -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: