Merge branch 'fixes' into pm-sleep

The 'fixes' branch contains material the next commit depends on.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ab5211b9e622..f00e319d8376 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -304,12 +304,17 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
 	}
 
 	err = arch_dup_task_struct(tsk, orig);
-	if (err)
-		goto out;
 
+	/*
+	 * We defer looking at err, because we will need this setup
+	 * for the clean up path to work correctly.
+	 */
 	tsk->stack = ti;
-
 	setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig);
+
+	if (err)
+		goto out;
+
 	clear_user_return_notifier(tsk);
 	clear_tsk_need_resched(tsk);
 	stackend = end_of_stack(tsk);