1. 01 Oct, 2012 39 commits
  2. 30 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • Al Viro's avatar
      generic kernel_execve() · 282124d1
      Al Viro authored
      based mostly on arm and alpha versions.  Architectures can define
      __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and use it, provided that
      	* they have working current_pt_regs(), even for kernel threads.
      	* kernel_thread-spawned threads do have space for pt_regs
      in the normal location.  Normally that's as simple as switching to
      generic kernel_thread() and making sure that kernel threads do *not*
      go through return from syscall path; call the payload from equivalent
      of ret_from_fork if we are in a kernel thread (or just have separate
      ret_from_kernel_thread and make copy_thread() use it instead of
      ret_from_fork in kernel thread case).
      	* they have ret_from_kernel_execve(); it is called after
      successful do_execve() done by kernel_execve() and gets normal
      pt_regs location passed to it as argument.  It's essentially
      a longjmp() analog - it should set sp, etc. to the situation
      expected at the return for syscall and go there.  Eventually
      the need for that sucker will disappear, but that'll take some
      surgery on kernel_thread() payloads.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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