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| author | Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> | 2017-10-14 00:58:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-10-14 01:18:33 +0200 |
| commit | ca182551857cc2c1e6a2b7f1e72090a137a15008 (patch) | |
| tree | 2811f50f3d352d6f82f453e05a76489637b2d1b0 /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | fs/binfmt_misc.c: node could be NULL when evicting inode (diff) | |
| download | linux-ca182551857cc2c1e6a2b7f1e72090a137a15008.tar.xz linux-ca182551857cc2c1e6a2b7f1e72090a137a15008.zip | |
kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks
Kmemleak considers any pointers on task stacks as references. This
patch clears newly allocated and reused vmap stacks.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150728990124.744199.8403409836394318684.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index e702cb9ffbd8..07cc743698d3 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node) if (!s) continue; +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK + /* Clear stale pointers from reused stack. */ + memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE); +#endif tsk->stack_vm_area = s; return s->addr; } |