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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-06-28 21:52:01 +0200
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-12-13 19:04:45 +0100
commit0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 (patch)
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parentexit/s390: Remove dead reference to do_exit from copy_thread (diff)
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exit: Add and use make_task_dead.
There are two big uses of do_exit. The first is it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call. The second use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer in kernel code. Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle catastrophic failure. In time this can probably be reduced to just a light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new concept. Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code is doing. As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit rewind_stack_and_make_dead. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/mm/fault.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
index eee5102c3d88..e9193d52222e 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ retry:
printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request at "
"virtual address %016lx\n", address);
die_if_kernel("Oops", regs, cause, (unsigned long*)regs - 16);
- do_exit(SIGKILL);
+ make_task_dead(SIGKILL);
/* We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that
made us unable to handle the page fault gracefully. */