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authorChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2020-08-19 12:46:45 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>2020-08-20 13:12:57 +0200
commitcad6967ac10843a70842cd39c7b53412901dd21f (patch)
treec58cc9dfc0687439edef762daed0b88da79461fa /kernel/fork.c
parent9123e3a74ec7b934a4a099e98af6a61c2f80bbf5 (diff)
downloadlinux-cad6967ac10843a70842cd39c7b53412901dd21f.tar.bz2
fork: introduce kernel_clone()
The old _do_fork() helper doesn't follow naming conventions of in-kernel helpers for syscalls. The process creation cleanup in [1] didn't change the name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used in quite a few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the better strategy. This commit does two things: 1. renames _do_fork() to kernel_clone() but keeps _do_fork() as a simple static inline wrapper around kernel_clone(). 2. Changes the return type from long to pid_t. This aligns kernel_thread() and kernel_clone(). Also, the return value from kernel_clone that is surfaced in fork(), vfork(), clone(), and clone3() is taken from pid_vrn() which returns a pid_t too. Follow-up patches will switch each caller of _do_fork() and each place where it is referenced over to kernel_clone(). After all these changes are done, we can remove _do_fork() completely and will only be left with kernel_clone(). [1]: 9ba27414f2ec ("Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 4d32190861bd..d822c7a4b9c4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2384,14 +2384,14 @@ struct mm_struct *copy_init_mm(void)
*
* args->exit_signal is expected to be checked for sanity by the caller.
*/
-long _do_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *args)
+pid_t kernel_clone(struct kernel_clone_args *args)
{
u64 clone_flags = args->flags;
struct completion vfork;
struct pid *pid;
struct task_struct *p;
int trace = 0;
- long nr;
+ pid_t nr;
/*
* For legacy clone() calls, CLONE_PIDFD uses the parent_tid argument
@@ -2477,7 +2477,7 @@ pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
.stack_size = (unsigned long)arg,
};
- return _do_fork(&args);
+ return kernel_clone(&args);
}
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_FORK
@@ -2488,7 +2488,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(fork)
.exit_signal = SIGCHLD,
};
- return _do_fork(&args);
+ return kernel_clone(&args);
#else
/* can not support in nommu mode */
return -EINVAL;
@@ -2504,7 +2504,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(vfork)
.exit_signal = SIGCHLD,
};
- return _do_fork(&args);
+ return kernel_clone(&args);
}
#endif
@@ -2542,7 +2542,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
.tls = tls,
};
- return _do_fork(&args);
+ return kernel_clone(&args);
}
#endif
@@ -2700,7 +2700,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(clone3, struct clone_args __user *, uargs, size_t, size)
if (!clone3_args_valid(&kargs))
return -EINVAL;
- return _do_fork(&kargs);
+ return kernel_clone(&kargs);
}
#endif
@@ -2863,7 +2863,7 @@ int unshare_fd(unsigned long unshare_flags, unsigned int max_fds,
/*
* unshare allows a process to 'unshare' part of the process
* context which was originally shared using clone. copy_*
- * functions used by _do_fork() cannot be used here directly
+ * functions used by kernel_clone() cannot be used here directly
* because they modify an inactive task_struct that is being
* constructed. Here we are modifying the current, active,
* task_struct.