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Revision 1ec6574a3c0a22c130c08e8c36c825cb87d68f8e authored by Linus Torvalds on 03 June 2022, 23:03:05 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 03 June 2022, 23:03:05 UTC
Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
  tasks.

  Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
  all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
  kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
  kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
  struct kthread possible.

  Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
  init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
  enough to be backportable.

  The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
  up and cause the code to make sense.

  In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
  I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
  detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
  PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
  flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
  was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
  thread.

  I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
  I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
  sitting in linux-next"

* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
  fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
  fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
  init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
  fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
  fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
  fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
  kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
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Tip revision: 1ec6574a3c0a22c130c08e8c36c825cb87d68f8e authored by Linus Torvalds on 03 June 2022, 23:03:05 UTC
Merge tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Tip revision: 1ec6574
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