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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-12-13 09:28:43 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-12-13 09:28:43 +0100
commit20aeeb356ba2e8daa99b5942c528ae2b3ea28433 (patch)
treed2cebc7039954851998d592123899f5627def7a9 /kernel/exit.c
parent07a9e2b2fbdda631eeff54e4b8ebcaaea71be538 (diff)
parent5b84ba26a9672e615897234fa5efd3eea2d6b295 (diff)
Merge branch 'topic/workq-update' into topic/asoc
Conflicts: sound/soc/codecs/wm8350.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8753.c sound/soc/sh/fsi.c sound/soc/soc-core.c
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 21aa7b3001f..676149a4ac5 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);