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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>2014-06-04 16:05:36 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-06-30 20:11:53 -0700
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kthread: fix return value of kthread_create() upon SIGKILL.
commit 8fe6929cfd43c44834858a53e129ffdc7c166298 upstream. Commit 786235eeba0e ("kthread: make kthread_create() killable") meant for allowing kthread_create() to abort as soon as killed by the OOM-killer. But returning -ENOMEM is wrong if killed by SIGKILL from userspace. Change kthread_create() to return -EINTR upon SIGKILL. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index b5ae3ee860a9..f6249f9ab33e 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
* kthread_stop() has been called). The return value should be zero
* or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop().
*
- * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
+ * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) or ERR_PTR(-EINTR).
*/
struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
void *data, int node,
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
* that thread.
*/
if (xchg(&create->done, NULL))
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINTR);
/*
* kthreadd (or new kernel thread) will call complete()
* shortly.