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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2023-01-24 11:29:50 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-02-01 08:23:19 +0100
commitd9c740c765e5b5d27bc6e7a500430a9bd4e14e75 (patch)
tree25c2a8487942b766281d25ed2de9cb666fe77dd4 /kernel
parent715a63588f5602eae9ee7699ad83863cb500a019 (diff)
exit: Add and use make_task_dead.
commit 0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 upstream. There are two big uses of do_exit. The first is it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call. The second use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer in kernel code. Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle catastrophic failure. In time this can probably be reduced to just a light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new concept. Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code is doing. As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit rewind_stack_and_make_dead. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 8989e1d1f79b..8d7577940077 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -863,6 +863,15 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_exit);
+void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
+{
+ /*
+ * Take the task off the cpu after something catastrophic has
+ * happened.
+ */
+ do_exit(signr);
+}
+
void complete_and_exit(struct completion *comp, long code)
{
if (comp)