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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2006-10-02 02:18:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-02 07:57:23 -0700
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[PATCH] introduce kernel_execve
The use of execve() in the kernel is dubious, since it relies on the __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ mechanism that stores the result in a global errno variable. As a first step of getting rid of this, change all users to a global kernel_execve function that returns a proper error code. This function is a terrible hack, and a later patch removes it again after the kernel syscalls are gone. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--lib/execve.c23
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index ddf3e676e1f4..4d752be0edc0 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK),y)
lib-y += dec_and_lock.o
endif
+lib-y += execve.o
+
obj-$(CONFIG_CRC_CCITT) += crc-ccitt.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRC16) += crc16.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRC32) += crc32.o
diff --git a/lib/execve.c b/lib/execve.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2667ebc15045
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/execve.c
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#include <asm/bug.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+
+#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
+static int errno __attribute__((unused));
+#include <asm/unistd.h>
+
+#ifdef _syscall3
+int kernel_execve (const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
+ __attribute__((__weak__));
+int kernel_execve (const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
+{
+ mm_segment_t fs = get_fs();
+ int ret;
+
+ WARN_ON(segment_eq(fs, USER_DS));
+ ret = execve(filename, (char **)argv, (char **)envp);
+ if (ret)
+ ret = -errno;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+#endif