Merge tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler fix from Borislav Petkov:
 "Fix task exposure order when forking tasks"

* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix yet more sched_fork() races

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index bfa933473ff3f..a024bf6254df8 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2267,6 +2267,17 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 		goto bad_fork_put_pidfd;
 
 	/*
+	 * Now that the cgroups are pinned, re-clone the parent cgroup and put
+	 * the new task on the correct runqueue. All this *before* the task
+	 * becomes visible.
+	 *
+	 * This isn't part of ->can_fork() because while the re-cloning is
+	 * cgroup specific, it unconditionally needs to place the task on a
+	 * runqueue.
+	 */
+	sched_cgroup_fork(p, args);
+
+	/*
 	 * 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
@@ -2375,7 +2386,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 		fd_install(pidfd, pidfile);
 
 	proc_fork_connector(p);
-	sched_post_fork(p, args);
+	sched_post_fork(p);
 	cgroup_post_fork(p, args);
 	perf_event_fork(p);