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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-01-07 14:14:15 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-01-07 14:14:15 +0100
commit1c2a48cf65580a276552151eb8f78d78c55b828e (patch)
tree68ed0628a276b33cb5aa0ad4899c1afe0a33a69d /kernel/exit.c
parent0aa002fe602939370e9476e5ec32b562000a0425 (diff)
parentcb600d2f83c854ec3d6660063e4466431999489b (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic-cleanups
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, update to a more recent -rc base Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 21aa7b3001fb4..676149a4ac5ff 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -914,6 +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);