linux/arch
Mathias Krause dac853ae89 exec: delay address limit change until point of no return
Unconditionally changing the address limit to USER_DS and not restoring
it to its old value in the error path is wrong because it prevents us
using kernel memory on repeated calls to this function.  This, in fact,
breaks the fallback of hard coded paths to the init program from being
ever successful if the first candidate fails to load.

With this patch applied switching to USER_DS is delayed until the point
of no return is reached which makes it possible to have a multi-arch
rootfs with one arch specific init binary for each of the (hard coded)
probed paths.

Since the address limit is already set to USER_DS when start_thread()
will be invoked, this redundancy can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-09 12:50:05 -07:00
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alpha Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2011-06-07 18:46:37 -07:00
avr32 Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
blackfin Blackfin: strncpy: fix handling of zero lengths 2011-06-03 11:05:36 -04:00
cris Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] wire up sendmmsg() syscall for Itanium 2011-05-31 10:09:24 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
mn10300 MN10300: Add missing _sdata declaration 2011-06-07 19:03:53 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
powerpc powerpc/pmac: Don't register pmac PIC syscore ops when HW not present 2011-05-31 20:30:20 +09:00
s390 [S390] fix kvm defines for 31 bit compile 2011-06-06 14:14:56 +02:00
score arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT} 2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
sh sh: Fix up asm-generic/ptrace.h fallout. 2011-05-31 14:39:49 +09:00
sparc Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
tile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2011-05-29 11:29:28 -07:00
um arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT} 2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 2011-05-27 14:27:34 -07:00
x86 exec: delay address limit change until point of no return 2011-06-09 12:50:05 -07:00
xtensa Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig mm, powerpc: move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00