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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior d2be773a92 vhost: Take a reference on the task in struct vhost_task. 
[ Upstream commit afe16653e0 ]

vhost_task_create() creates a task and keeps a reference to its
task_struct. That task may exit early via a signal and its task_struct
will be released.
A pending vhost_task_wake() will then attempt to wake the task and
access a task_struct which is no longer there.

Acquire a reference on the task_struct while creating the thread and
release the reference while the struct vhost_task itself is removed.
If the task exits early due to a signal, then the vhost_task_wake() will
still access a valid task_struct. The wake is safe and will be skipped
in this case.

Fixes: f9010dbdce ("fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression")
Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aKkLEtoDXKxAAWju@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Message-Id: <20250918181144.Ygo8BZ-R@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.