Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro:
 "The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with
  alpha/arm/x86 use of those.  Plus sanitizing the asm glue and
  do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running
  task_work stuff" breakage there.

  At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work
  can be done independently for different architectures.  The only
  pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are
  restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for
  the next cycle.

  I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start
  eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it
  turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style
  changes."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
  make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves
  make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
  ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run()
  don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc
  alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending()
  alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
  alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
  alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 6f99aead66c..1c317e38683 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/suspend.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
 #include <trace/events/module.h>
@@ -221,11 +222,13 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
 	retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
 			       (const char *const *)sub_info->argv,
 			       (const char *const *)sub_info->envp);
+	if (!retval)
+		return 0;
 
 	/* Exec failed? */
 fail:
 	sub_info->retval = retval;
-	return 0;
+	do_exit(0);
 }
 
 static int call_helper(void *data)
@@ -292,7 +295,7 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data)
 	}
 
 	umh_complete(sub_info);
-	return 0;
+	do_exit(0);
 }
 
 /* This is run by khelper thread  */
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 146a6fa9682..29fb60caecb 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
 #include <trace/events/sched.h>
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);