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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-09-30 13:20:09 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-09-30 13:36:39 -0400
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generic kernel_execve()
based mostly on arm and alpha versions. Architectures can define __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and use it, provided that * they have working current_pt_regs(), even for kernel threads. * kernel_thread-spawned threads do have space for pt_regs in the normal location. Normally that's as simple as switching to generic kernel_thread() and making sure that kernel threads do *not* go through return from syscall path; call the payload from equivalent of ret_from_fork if we are in a kernel thread (or just have separate ret_from_kernel_thread and make copy_thread() use it instead of ret_from_fork in kernel thread case). * they have ret_from_kernel_execve(); it is called after successful do_execve() done by kernel_execve() and gets normal pt_regs location passed to it as argument. It's essentially a longjmp() analog - it should set sp, etc. to the situation expected at the return for syscall and go there. Eventually the need for that sucker will disappear, but that'll take some surgery on kernel_thread() payloads. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/binfmts.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/binfmts.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
index 8938beabad7a..f9c9d08f4f7c 100644
--- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
+++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ struct pt_regs;
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/unistd.h>
#include <asm/exec.h>
#define CORENAME_MAX_SIZE 128
@@ -137,5 +138,9 @@ extern void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs);
extern void set_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt *new);
extern void free_bprm(struct linux_binprm *);
+#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE
+extern void ret_from_kernel_execve(struct pt_regs *normal) __noreturn;
+#endif
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_BINFMTS_H */