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-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 4d38ad0b70d..3234a0c32d5 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -678,6 +678,18 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
while (leader->exit_state != EXIT_ZOMBIE)
yield();
+ /*
+ * The only record we have of the real-time age of a
+ * process, regardless of execs it's done, is start_time.
+ * All the past CPU time is accumulated in signal_struct
+ * from sister threads now dead. But in this non-leader
+ * exec, nothing survives from the original leader thread,
+ * whose birth marks the true age of this process now.
+ * When we take on its identity by switching to its PID, we
+ * also take its birthdate (always earlier than our own).
+ */
+ current->start_time = leader->start_time;
+
spin_lock(&leader->proc_lock);
spin_lock(&current->proc_lock);
proc_dentry1 = proc_pid_unhash(current);