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Commit 00580f03 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman
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kthread: Never put_user the set_child_tid address



Kernel threads abuse set_child_tid.  Historically that has been fine
as set_child_tid was initialized after the kernel thread had been
forked.  Unfortunately storing struct kthread in set_child_tid after
the thread is running makes struct kthread being unusable for storing
result codes of the thread.

When set_child_tid is set to struct kthread during fork that results
in schedule_tail writing the thread id to the beggining of struct
kthread (if put_user does not realize it is a kernel address).

Solve this by skipping the put_user for all kthreads.

Reported-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YcNsG0Lp94V13whH@archlinux-ax161
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
parent dd621ee0
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