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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2019-03-05 15:24:43 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2019-03-05 15:24:43 +0100
commit2c2e5bb97544198a62e4edbf6aca5dd201979564 (patch)
treeffb927ea311d86aeee3a0ef561d6218280c038cb /kernel/fork.c
parentHID: roccat: Mark expected switch fall-through (diff)
parentHID: hid-asus: Add BT keyboard dock battery monitoring support (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-5.1/hid-asus' into for-linus
Asus Transbook T100CHI and T90CHI support from NOGUCHI Hiroshi
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!
*/