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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2009-10-05 18:17:32 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-10-06 17:00:01 +0200
commitfc6b177dee33365ccb29fe6d2092223cf8d679f9 (patch)
tree849fcb60282bc6c0a01c3113dfc617c7f03f97d3 /kernel
parenteaaea8036d0261d87d7072c5bc88c7ea730c18ac (diff)
futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup
The robust list pointers of user space held futexes are kept intact over an exec() call. When the exec'ed task exits exit_robust_list() is called with the stale pointer. The risk of corruption is minimal, but still it is incorrect to keep the pointers valid. Actually glibc should uninstall the robust list before calling exec() but we have to deal with it anyway. Nullify the pointers after [compat_]exit_robust_list() has been called. Reported-by: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index bfee931ee3f..88ef51ca84d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -543,11 +543,15 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
/* Get rid of any futexes when releasing the mm */
#ifdef CONFIG_FUTEX
- if (unlikely(tsk->robust_list))
+ if (unlikely(tsk->robust_list)) {
exit_robust_list(tsk);
+ tsk->robust_list = NULL;
+ }
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
- if (unlikely(tsk->compat_robust_list))
+ if (unlikely(tsk->compat_robust_list)) {
compat_exit_robust_list(tsk);
+ tsk->compat_robust_list = NULL;
+ }
#endif
#endif