From fb45550d76bb584857cf0ea3be79fa78207a3cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:09:44 -0400 Subject: make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves Most of them never returned anyway - only two functions had to be changed. That allows to simplify their callers a whole lot. Note that this does *not* apply to kthread_run() callbacks - all of those had been called from the same kernel_thread() callback, which did do_exit() already. This is strictly about very few low-level kernel_thread() callbacks (there are only 6 of those, mostly as part of kthread.h and kmod.h exported mechanisms, plus kernel_init() itself). Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- kernel/kmod.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index 6f99aead66c6..b6e5ca9c758a 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data) /* Exec failed? */ fail: sub_info->retval = retval; - return 0; + do_exit(0); } static int call_helper(void *data) @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data) } umh_complete(sub_info); - return 0; + do_exit(0); } /* This is run by khelper thread */ -- cgit v1.2.1 From a74fb73c12398b250fdc5e333a11e15a9e3a84fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:28:25 -0400 Subject: 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 --- kernel/kmod.c | 3 +++ kernel/kthread.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') 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 #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -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 #include #include +#include #include static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock); -- cgit v1.2.1