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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-10 21:28:25 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-12 13:35:07 -0400
commita74fb73c12398b250fdc5e333a11e15a9e3a84fc (patch)
tree2bec2f6e20320f5a4bc01d1e19d7190842ef1c37 /kernel
parentfb45550d76bb584857cf0ea3be79fa78207a3cff (diff)
downloadlinux-a74fb73c12398b250fdc5e333a11e15a9e3a84fc.tar.bz2
infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
* allow kernel_execve() leave the actual return to userland to caller (selected by CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE). Callers updated accordingly. * architecture that does select GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE in its Kconfig should have its ret_from_kernel_thread() do this: call schedule_tail call the callback left for it by copy_thread(); if it ever returns, that's because it has just done successful kernel_execve() jump to return from syscall IOW, its only difference from ret_from_fork() is that it does call the callback. * such an architecture should also get rid of ret_from_kernel_execve() and __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE This is the last part of infrastructure patches in that area - from that point on work on different architectures can live independently. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c1
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index b6e5ca9c758a..1c317e386831 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <trace/events/module.h>
@@ -221,6 +222,8 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
(const char *const *)sub_info->argv,
(const char *const *)sub_info->envp);
+ if (!retval)
+ return 0;
/* Exec failed? */
fail:
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index b579af57ea10..7ba65c1aa6b3 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <trace/events/sched.h>
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);