From 7b34e4283c685f5cc6ba6d30e939906eee0d4bcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] introduce PF_KTHREAD flag Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads. It is set by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead). daemonize() was changed as well. In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway. This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler(). Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC. But I think this doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die soon. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/exec.c | 1 + include/linux/init_task.h | 2 +- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index af249af..cd2e8c9 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1326,6 +1326,7 @@ int do_execve(char * filename, if (retval < 0) goto out; + current->flags &= ~PF_KTHREAD; retval = search_binary_handler(bprm,regs); if (retval >= 0) { /* execve success */ diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index 93c45ac..021d8e7 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups; .state = 0, \ .stack = &init_thread_info, \ .usage = ATOMIC_INIT(2), \ - .flags = 0, \ + .flags = PF_KTHREAD, \ .lock_depth = -1, \ .prio = MAX_PRIO-20, \ .static_prio = MAX_PRIO-20, \ diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 79e749d..eec64a4 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1483,6 +1483,7 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t) #define PF_EXITING 0x00000004 /* getting shut down */ #define PF_EXITPIDONE 0x00000008 /* pi exit done on shut down */ #define PF_VCPU 0x00000010 /* I'm a virtual CPU */ +#define PF_KTHREAD 0x00000020 /* I am a kernel thread */ #define PF_FORKNOEXEC 0x00000040 /* forked but didn't exec */ #define PF_SUPERPRIV 0x00000100 /* used super-user privileges */ #define PF_DUMPCORE 0x00000200 /* dumped core */ diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index a7799d8..28a44a2 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ void daemonize(const char *name, ...) * We don't want to have TIF_FREEZE set if the system-wide hibernation * or suspend transition begins right now. */ - current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE; + current->flags |= (PF_NOFREEZE | PF_KTHREAD); if (current->nsproxy != &init_nsproxy) { get_nsproxy(&init_nsproxy); -- 1.8.2.3