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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-10 21:28:25 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-12 13:35:07 -0400
commita74fb73c12398b250fdc5e333a11e15a9e3a84fc (patch)
tree2bec2f6e20320f5a4bc01d1e19d7190842ef1c37 /include/linux/syscalls.h
parentfb45550d76bb584857cf0ea3be79fa78207a3cff (diff)
infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
* allow kernel_execve() leave the actual return to userland to caller (selected by CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE). Callers updated accordingly. * architecture that does select GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE in its Kconfig should have its ret_from_kernel_thread() do this: call schedule_tail call the callback left for it by copy_thread(); if it ever returns, that's because it has just done successful kernel_execve() jump to return from syscall IOW, its only difference from ret_from_fork() is that it does call the callback. * such an architecture should also get rid of ret_from_kernel_execve() and __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE This is the last part of infrastructure patches in that area - from that point on work on different architectures can live independently. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 19439c75c5b2..727f0cd73921 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -827,7 +827,15 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fanotify_mark(int fanotify_fd, unsigned int flags,
const char __user *pathname);
asmlinkage long sys_syncfs(int fd);
+#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
int kernel_execve(const char *filename, const char *const argv[], const char *const envp[]);
+#else
+#define kernel_execve(filename, argv, envp) \
+ do_execve(filename, \
+ (const char __user *const __user *)argv, \
+ (const char __user *const __user *)envp, \
+ current_pt_regs())
+#endif
asmlinkage long sys_perf_event_open(