If something goes wrong with task stack refcounting and a stack refcount hits zero too early, warn and leak it rather than potentially freeing it early.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> --- kernel/fork.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( 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: -- 2.7.4
