This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    freezer: exec should clear PF_NOFREEZE along with PF_KTHREAD

to the 3.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     freezer-exec-should-clear-pf_nofreeze-along-with-pf_kthread.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From b40a79591ca918e7b91b0d9b6abd5d00f2e88c19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:28:12 +0200
Subject: freezer: exec should clear PF_NOFREEZE along with PF_KTHREAD

From: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

commit b40a79591ca918e7b91b0d9b6abd5d00f2e88c19 upstream.

flush_old_exec() clears PF_KTHREAD but forgets about PF_NOFREEZE.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/exec.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1110,7 +1110,8 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm *
        bprm->mm = NULL;                /* We're using it now */
 
        set_fs(USER_DS);
-       current->flags &= ~(PF_RANDOMIZE | PF_FORKNOEXEC | PF_KTHREAD);
+       current->flags &=
+               ~(PF_RANDOMIZE | PF_FORKNOEXEC | PF_KTHREAD | PF_NOFREEZE);
        flush_thread();
        current->personality &= ~bprm->per_clear;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.6/freezer-exec-should-clear-pf_nofreeze-along-with-pf_kthread.patch
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