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[Wily,SRU] x86/vm86: Set thread.vm86 to NULL on fork/clone

Message ID 1446660465-23590-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com
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Tim Gardner Nov. 4, 2015, 6:07 p.m. UTC 
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1499089

thread.vm86 points to per-task information -- the pointer should not
be copied on clone.

Fixes: d4ce0f26c790 ("x86/vm86: Move fields from 'struct kernel_vm86_struct' to 'struct vm86'")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/71c5d6985d70ec8197c8d72f003823c81b7dcf99.1446270067.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
(cherry picked from commit 2459ee8651dc5ab72790c2ffa99af288c7641b64)
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Seth Forshee Nov. 6, 2015, 2:09 p.m. UTC | #1
Brad Figg Nov. 6, 2015, 8:04 p.m. UTC | #2 
Applied to the master-next branch of Wily.
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 7e3bedb..7e2ef5d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(idle_notifier_unregister);
 int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
 {
 	memcpy(dst, src, arch_task_struct_size);
+#ifdef CONFIG_VM86
+	dst->thread.vm86 = NULL;
+#endif
 
 	return fpu__copy(&dst->thread.fpu, &src->thread.fpu);
 }