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authorSasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>2012-05-31 16:26:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-31 17:49:26 -0700
commit499eea6bf9c06df3bf4549954aee6fb3427946ed (patch)
treebdd7c4be7ac845e0511c6b36f91245105ed8fdcf /kernel
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sethostname/setdomainname: notify userspace when there is a change in uts_kern_table
sethostname() and setdomainname() notify userspace on failure (without modifying uts_kern_table). Change things so that we only notify userspace on success, when uts_kern_table was actually modified. Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 6df42624e454..8b71cef3bf1a 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1378,8 +1378,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sethostname, char __user *, name, int, len)
memcpy(u->nodename, tmp, len);
memset(u->nodename + len, 0, sizeof(u->nodename) - len);
errno = 0;
+ uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_HOSTNAME);
}
- uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_HOSTNAME);
up_write(&uts_sem);
return errno;
}
@@ -1429,8 +1429,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setdomainname, char __user *, name, int, len)
memcpy(u->domainname, tmp, len);
memset(u->domainname + len, 0, sizeof(u->domainname) - len);
errno = 0;
+ uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_DOMAINNAME);
}
- uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_DOMAINNAME);
up_write(&uts_sem);
return errno;
}