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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2006-10-02 02:18:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-02 07:57:23 -0700
commit6760856791c6e527da678021ee6a67896549d4da (patch)
tree31bf78dac3a2ea68282ae394aeedb15bc92ae7d7 /kernel
parent2453a3062d36f39f01302f9f1ad18e7a0c54fe38 (diff)
downloadlinux-6760856791c6e527da678021ee6a67896549d4da.tar.bz2
[PATCH] introduce kernel_execve
The use of execve() in the kernel is dubious, since it relies on the __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ mechanism that stores the result in a global errno variable. As a first step of getting rid of this, change all users to a global kernel_execve function that returns a proper error code. This function is a terrible hack, and a later patch removes it again after the kernel syscalls are gone. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index f8121b95183f..bb4e29d924e4 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
call_usermodehelper wait flag, and remove exec_usermodehelper.
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Jan 2003
*/
-#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
-
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
@@ -169,7 +167,8 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
retval = -EPERM;
if (current->fs->root)
- retval = execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
+ retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
+ sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
/* Exec failed? */
sub_info->retval = retval;