Commit eccc8767 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 

Pull core dump fix from Al Viro:
 "Fix for multithreaded coredump playing fast and loose with getting
  registers of secondary threads; if a secondary gets caught in the
  middle of exit(2), the conditition it will be stopped in for dumper to
  examine might be unusual enough for things to go wrong.

  Quite a few architectures are fine with that, but some are not."

* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  don't dump the threads that had been already exiting when zapped.
parents e2f0c565 77f6ab8b

kernel/exit.c

+4 −1
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@@ -454,7 +454,10 @@ static void exit_mm(void) 
		mmap_read_unlock(mm);



		self.task = current;

		if (self.task->flags & PF_SIGNALED)

			self.next = xchg(&core_state->dumper.next, &self);

		else

			self.task = NULL;

		/*

		 * Implies mb(), the result of xchg() must be visible

		 * to core_state->dumper.