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authorBjoern B. Brandenburg <bbb@cs.unc.edu>2010-01-29 19:25:26 -0500
committerAndrea Bastoni <bastoni@cs.unc.edu>2010-05-29 17:25:50 -0400
commit5e987d486c0f89d615d134512938fc1198b3ca67 (patch)
treeb781dfcce3dcfe37e8c0a18e694bc58165165ac2 /kernel/fork.c
parent37b840336a1663a5ce62d663a702d9afefd56d23 (diff)
Bugfix: clear LITMUS^RT state on fork completely
When a real-time task forks, then its LITMUS^RT-specific fields should be cleared, because we don't want real-time tasks to spawn new real-time tasks that bypass the plugin's admission control (if any). This was broken in three ways: 1) kernel/fork.c did not erase all of tsk->rt_param, only the first few bytes due to a wrong size argument to memset(). 2) It should have been calling litmus_fork() instead anyway. 3) litmus_fork() was _also_ not clearing all of tsk->rt_param, due to another size argument bug. Interestingly, 1) and 2) can be traced back to the 2007->2008 port, whereas 3) was added by Mitchell much later on (to dead code, no less). I'm really surprised that this never blew up before.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 889730cce3ad..9fad346d7029 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
249 tsk->stack = ti; 249 tsk->stack = ti;
250 250
251 /* Don't let the new task be a real-time task. */ 251 /* Don't let the new task be a real-time task. */
252 memset(&tsk->rt_param, 0, sizeof(struct rt_task)); 252 litmus_fork(tsk);
253 253
254 err = prop_local_init_single(&tsk->dirties); 254 err = prop_local_init_single(&tsk->dirties);
255 if (err) 255 if (err)