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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/livepatch/transition.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c index 5d03a2ad1066..30187b1d8275 100644 --- a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c +++ b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c @@ -610,9 +610,23 @@ 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; } /* |