[PATCH] uml: make execvp safe for our usage

Reimplement execvp for our purposes - after we call fork() it is fundamentally
unsafe to use the kernel allocator - current is not valid there.  So we simply
pass to our modified execvp() a preallocated buffer.  This fixes a real bug
and works very well in testing (I've seen indirectly warning messages from the
forked thread - they went on the pipe connected to its stdout and where read
as a number by UML, when calling read_output().  I verified the obtained
number corresponded to "BUG:").

The added use of __cant_sleep() is not a new bug since __cant_sleep() is
already used in the same function - passing an atomicity parameter would be
better but it would require huge change, stating that this function must not
be called in atomic context and can sleep is a better idea (will make sure of
this gradually).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-11-25 11:09:39 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9dce447a54
commit 5d48545e5e
4 changed files with 166 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ extern unsigned long __do_user_copy(void *to, const void *from, int n,
void (*op)(void *to, const void *from,
int n), int *faulted_out);
/* execvp.c */
extern int execvp_noalloc(char *buf, const char *file, char *const argv[]);
/* helper.c */
extern int run_helper(void (*pre_exec)(void *), void *pre_data, char **argv,
unsigned long *stack_out);