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-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 623259fc794d..997ac1d584f7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
static void release_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
+ if (WARN_ON(tsk->state != TASK_DEAD))
+ return; /* Better to leak the stack than to free prematurely */
+
account_kernel_stack(tsk, -1);
arch_release_thread_stack(tsk->stack);
free_thread_stack(tsk);
@@ -1862,6 +1865,7 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_count:
atomic_dec(&p->cred->user->processes);
exit_creds(p);
bad_fork_free:
+ p->state = TASK_DEAD;
put_task_stack(p);
free_task(p);
fork_out: