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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/umh.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/umh.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/umh.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/umh.c b/kernel/umh.c index a25433f9cd9a..fcf3ee803630 100644 --- a/kernel/umh.c +++ b/kernel/umh.c @@ -119,37 +119,16 @@ static void call_usermodehelper_exec_sync(struct subprocess_info *sub_info) { pid_t pid; - /* If SIGCLD is ignored kernel_wait4 won't populate the status. */ + /* If SIGCLD is ignored do_wait won't populate the status. */ kernel_sigaction(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); pid = kernel_thread(call_usermodehelper_exec_async, sub_info, SIGCHLD); - if (pid < 0) { + if (pid < 0) sub_info->retval = pid; - } else { - int ret = -ECHILD; - /* - * Normally it is bogus to call wait4() from in-kernel because - * wait4() wants to write the exit code to a userspace address. - * But call_usermodehelper_exec_sync() always runs as kernel - * thread (workqueue) and put_user() to a kernel address works - * OK for kernel threads, due to their having an mm_segment_t - * which spans the entire address space. - * - * Thus the __user pointer cast is valid here. - */ - kernel_wait4(pid, (int __user *)&ret, 0, NULL); - - /* - * If ret is 0, either call_usermodehelper_exec_async failed and - * the real error code is already in sub_info->retval or - * sub_info->retval is 0 anyway, so don't mess with it then. - */ - if (ret) - sub_info->retval = ret; - } + else + kernel_wait(pid, &sub_info->retval); /* Restore default kernel sig handler */ kernel_sigaction(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); - umh_complete(sub_info); } |