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kernel: add a kernel_wait helper

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Add a helper that waits for a pid and stores the status in the passed in
kernel pointer.  Use it to fix the usage of kernel_wait4 in
call_usermodehelper_exec_sync that only happens to work due to the
implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for kernel threads.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721130449.5008-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-11 18:34:10 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f48ff83e9c
commit 8043fc147a
3 changed files with 21 additions and 25 deletions
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kernel/exit.c
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@@ -1626,6 +1626,22 @@ long kernel_wait4(pid_t upid, int __user *stat_addr, int options,
return ret;
}
int kernel_wait(pid_t pid, int *stat)
{
struct wait_opts wo = {
.wo_type = PIDTYPE_PID,
.wo_pid = find_get_pid(pid),
.wo_flags = WEXITED,
};
int ret;
ret = do_wait(&wo);
if (ret > 0 && wo.wo_stat)
*stat = wo.wo_stat;
put_pid(wo.wo_pid);
return ret;
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE4(wait4, pid_t, upid, int __user *, stat_addr,
int, options, struct rusage __user *, ru)
{