From 6760856791c6e527da678021ee6a67896549d4da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:18:26 -0700 Subject: [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 Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Russell King Cc: Ian Molton Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: David Howells Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Hirokazu Takata Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Kazumoto Kojima Cc: Richard Curnow Cc: William Lee Irwin III Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Cc: Miles Bader Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kmod.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c') 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 Jan 2003 */ -#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ - #include #include #include @@ -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; -- cgit v1.2.1