lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [May]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] kthread: fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails
On 05/09, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
> If a kthread forks (e.g. usermodehelper since commit 1da5c46fa965) but
> fails in copy_process() between calling dup_task_struct() and setting
> p->set_child_tid, then the value of p->set_child_tid will be inherited
> from the parent and get prematurely freed by free_kthread_struct().

Thanks,

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2017-05-10 21:21    [W:0.045 / U:0.120 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site