Paul Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Fix a latent bug in cpuset_exit() handling. If a task tried
> to allocate memory after calling cpuset_exit(), it oops'd in
> cpuset_update_task_memory_state() on a NULL cpuset pointer.
>
> So set the exiting tasks cpuset to the root cpuset instead of
> to NULL.
>
> A distro kernel hit this with an added kernel package that had
> just such a hook (allocating memory) in the exit code path.
Seems strange to patch the kernel for this. Can't the add-on patch do it?
Or can we just move the cpuset_exit()s to later in the exit() paths?
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