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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-06-28 14:52:01 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-12-13 12:04:45 -0600
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exit: Add and use make_task_dead.
There are two big uses of do_exit. The first is it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call. The second use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer in kernel code. Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle catastrophic failure. In time this can probably be reduced to just a light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new concept. Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code is doing. As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit rewind_stack_and_make_dead. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index ba88a6987400..2d4bbd9c3278 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ extern void sched_post_fork(struct task_struct *p,
extern void sched_dead(struct task_struct *p);
void __noreturn do_task_dead(void);
+void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr);
extern void proc_caches_init(void);