From 499eea6bf9c06df3bf4549954aee6fb3427946ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:26:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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> --- kernel/sys.c | 4 ++-- 1 file 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; }