Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc6' into for-2.6.38

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 21aa7b3..676149a 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -914,6 +914,15 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
 	if (unlikely(!tsk->pid))
 		panic("Attempted to kill the idle task!");
 
+	/*
+	 * If do_exit is called because this processes oopsed, it's possible
+	 * that get_fs() was left as KERNEL_DS, so reset it to USER_DS before
+	 * continuing. Amongst other possible reasons, this is to prevent
+	 * mm_release()->clear_child_tid() from writing to a user-controlled
+	 * kernel address.
+	 */
+	set_fs(USER_DS);
+
 	tracehook_report_exit(&code);
 
 	validate_creds_for_do_exit(tsk);