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-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a60459947f18..7f49be94eba9 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1833,8 +1833,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
posix_cpu_timers_init(p);
- p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
- p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
p->io_context = NULL;
audit_set_context(p, NULL);
cgroup_fork(p);
@@ -2001,6 +1999,17 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
goto bad_fork_free_pid;
/*
+ * From this point on we must avoid any synchronous user-space
+ * communication until we take the tasklist-lock. In particular, we do
+ * not want user-space to be able to predict the process start-time by
+ * stalling fork(2) after we recorded the start_time but before it is
+ * visible to the system.
+ */
+
+ p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
+ p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
+
+ /*
* Make it visible to the rest of the system, but dont wake it up yet.
* Need tasklist lock for parent etc handling!
*/