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-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c14
-rw-r--r--kernel/irq/irqdesc.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/irq/manage.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c3
4 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a60459947f18..b69248e6f0e0 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
+ tsk->stack = s->addr;
return s->addr;
}
@@ -1833,8 +1834,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
posix_cpu_timers_init(p);
- p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
- p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
p->io_context = NULL;
audit_set_context(p, NULL);
cgroup_fork(p);
@@ -2001,6 +2000,17 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
goto bad_fork_free_pid;
/*
+ * From this point on we must avoid any synchronous user-space
+ * communication until we take the tasklist-lock. In particular, we do
+ * not want user-space to be able to predict the process start-time by
+ * stalling fork(2) after we recorded the start_time but before it is
+ * visible to the system.
+ */
+
+ p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
+ p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
+
+ /*
* Make it visible to the rest of the system, but dont wake it up yet.
* Need tasklist lock for parent etc handling!
*/
diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
index ee062b7939d3..ef8ad36cadcf 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static int alloc_descs(unsigned int start, unsigned int cnt, int node,
/* Validate affinity mask(s) */
if (affinity) {
- for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++, i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
if (cpumask_empty(&affinity[i].mask))
return -EINVAL;
}
diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index a4888ce4667a..84b54a17b95d 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@ int irq_setup_affinity(struct irq_desc *desc)
}
cpumask_and(&mask, cpu_online_mask, set);
+ if (cpumask_empty(&mask))
+ cpumask_copy(&mask, cpu_online_mask);
+
if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
const struct cpumask *nodemask = cpumask_of_node(node);
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index a48cbf1414b8..f7eb62eceb24 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1207,7 +1207,8 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem);
/*
* Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0".
* Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40
- * And we map 4.x to 2.6.60+x, so 4.0 would be 2.6.60.
+ * And we map 4.x and later versions to 2.6.60+x, so 4.0/5.0/6.0/... would be
+ * 2.6.60.
*/
static int override_release(char __user *release, size_t len)
{