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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kthread.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index fe3f2a40d61e..3d326833092b 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -68,16 +68,6 @@ enum KTHREAD_BITS { KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, }; -static inline void set_kthread_struct(void *kthread) -{ - /* - * We abuse ->set_child_tid to avoid the new member and because it - * can't be wrongly copied by copy_process(). We also rely on fact - * that the caller can't exec, so PF_KTHREAD can't be cleared. - */ - current->set_child_tid = (__force void __user *)kthread; -} - static inline struct kthread *to_kthread(struct task_struct *k) { WARN_ON(!(k->flags & PF_KTHREAD)); @@ -103,6 +93,22 @@ static inline struct kthread *__to_kthread(struct task_struct *p) return kthread; } +void set_kthread_struct(struct task_struct *p) +{ + struct kthread *kthread; + + if (__to_kthread(p)) + return; + + kthread = kzalloc(sizeof(*kthread), GFP_KERNEL); + /* + * We abuse ->set_child_tid to avoid the new member and because it + * can't be wrongly copied by copy_process(). We also rely on fact + * that the caller can't exec, so PF_KTHREAD can't be cleared. + */ + p->set_child_tid = (__force void __user *)kthread; +} + void free_kthread_struct(struct task_struct *k) { struct kthread *kthread; @@ -272,8 +278,8 @@ static int kthread(void *_create) struct kthread *self; int ret; - self = kzalloc(sizeof(*self), GFP_KERNEL); - set_kthread_struct(self); + set_kthread_struct(current); + self = to_kthread(current); /* If user was SIGKILLed, I release the structure. */ done = xchg(&create->done, NULL); |