commit 91cdbb955a upstream.
The kernel handles the NX fault by updating CSB or sending
signal to process. In multithread applications, children can
open VAS windows and can exit without closing them. But the
parent can continue to send NX requests with these windows. To
prevent pid reuse, reference will be taken on pid and tgid
when the window is opened and release them during window close.
The current code is not releasing the tgid reference which can
cause pid leak and this patch fixes the issue.
Fixes: db1c08a740 ("powerpc/vas: Take reference to PID and mm for user space windows")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.8+
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6020fc4d444864fe20f7dcdc5edfe53e67480a1c.camel@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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