3.13.11.5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> --- kernel/kthread.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index b5ae3ee..f6249f9 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. -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
