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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2020-08-11 18:34:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-12 10:57:59 -0700 |
| commit | 8043fc147a97ec2eefc582487f344f2cbe86d12e (patch) | |
| tree | 05be60738ff9974830290aa6a4459336ecdd45d9 /kernel/exit.c | |
| parent | f48ff83e9c1a8fc2e8bfedb4855933eb1ed159b2 (diff) | |
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kernel: add a kernel_wait helper
Add a helper that waits for a pid and stores the status in the passed in
kernel pointer. Use it to fix the usage of kernel_wait4 in
call_usermodehelper_exec_sync that only happens to work due to the
implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for kernel threads.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721130449.5008-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index c2d2961576f2..733e80f334e7 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -1626,6 +1626,22 @@ long kernel_wait4(pid_t upid, int __user *stat_addr, int options, return ret; } +int kernel_wait(pid_t pid, int *stat) +{ + struct wait_opts wo = { + .wo_type = PIDTYPE_PID, + .wo_pid = find_get_pid(pid), + .wo_flags = WEXITED, + }; + int ret; + + ret = do_wait(&wo); + if (ret > 0 && wo.wo_stat) + *stat = wo.wo_stat; + put_pid(wo.wo_pid); + return ret; +} + SYSCALL_DEFINE4(wait4, pid_t, upid, int __user *, stat_addr, int, options, struct rusage __user *, ru) { |