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authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>2020-01-15 19:41:50 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-01-22 15:28:14 +0100
commit0ff0e95e9909e6ddefc8caa3948f20c0cb3dd6fb (patch)
tree6b864b64404dd7ee79b31d5e7130787eb5479ef7 /drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
parentdevtmpfs: fix theoretical stale pointer deref in devtmpfsd() (diff)
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devtmpfs: factor out setup part of devtmpfsd()
Factor out the setup part of devtmpfsd() to make it a bit easier to see that we always call setup_done() exactly once (provided of course the kthread is succesfully created). Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115184154.3492-3-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/devtmpfs.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/devtmpfs.c17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index ccb046fe12b7..963889331bb4 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static int handle(const char *name, umode_t mode, kuid_t uid, kgid_t gid,
return handle_remove(name, dev);
}
-static int devtmpfsd(void *p)
+static int devtmpfs_setup(void *p)
{
int err;
@@ -400,7 +400,18 @@ static int devtmpfsd(void *p)
goto out;
ksys_chdir("/.."); /* will traverse into overmounted root */
ksys_chroot(".");
+out:
+ *(int *)p = err;
complete(&setup_done);
+ return err;
+}
+
+static int devtmpfsd(void *p)
+{
+ int err = devtmpfs_setup(p);
+
+ if (err)
+ return err;
while (1) {
spin_lock(&req_lock);
while (requests) {
@@ -421,10 +432,6 @@ static int devtmpfsd(void *p)
schedule();
}
return 0;
-out:
- *(int *)p = err;
- complete(&setup_done);
- return err;
}
/*