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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 2cf74ed..f37980d 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -448,7 +448,16 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm) tsk->vfork_done = NULL; complete(vfork_done); } - if (tsk->clear_child_tid && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) { + + /* + * If we're exiting normally, clear a user-space tid field if + * requested. We leave this alone when dying by signal, to leave + * the value intact in a core dump, and to save the unnecessary + * trouble otherwise. Userland only wants this done for a sys_exit. + */ + if (tsk->clear_child_tid + && !(tsk->flags & PF_SIGNALED) + && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) { u32 __user * tidptr = tsk->clear_child_tid; tsk->clear_child_tid = NULL; |
