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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-08 03:43:39 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-08 03:43:39 +0000
commit27a2c36c9538c7e5536a1b20fd74f0fc911d7950 (patch)
tree3101221cb1458bce62f7ae76638517d93f8b64a8 /kernel/livepatch/transition.c
parentReleasing progress-linux version 4.19.260-1progress5u1. (diff)
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Merging upstream version 4.19.269.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/livepatch/transition.c')
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
index 5bc349805..20277ad6b 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
@@ -563,9 +563,23 @@ void klp_reverse_transition(void)
/* Called from copy_process() during fork */
void klp_copy_process(struct task_struct *child)
{
- child->patch_state = current->patch_state;
- /* TIF_PATCH_PENDING gets copied in setup_thread_stack() */
+ /*
+ * The parent process may have gone through a KLP transition since
+ * the thread flag was copied in setup_thread_stack earlier. Bring
+ * the task flag up to date with the parent here.
+ *
+ * The operation is serialized against all klp_*_transition()
+ * operations by the tasklist_lock. The only exception is
+ * klp_update_patch_state(current), but we cannot race with
+ * that because we are current.
+ */
+ if (test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_PATCH_PENDING))
+ set_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_PATCH_PENDING);
+ else
+ clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_PATCH_PENDING);
+
+ child->patch_state = current->patch_state;
}
/*