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Eric W. Biederman 85be9ae7b6 exit/xtensa: In arch/xtensa/entry.S:Linvalid_mask call make_task_dead

There have historically been 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.  The function make_task_dead
has been added to accomidate the second use.

The call to do_exit in Linvalidmask is clearly not a normal userspace
exit.  As failure handling there are two possible ways to go.
If userspace can trigger the issue force_exit_sig should be called.
Otherwise make_task_dead probably from the implementation of die
is appropriate.

Replace the call of do_exit in Linvalidmask with make_task_dead as
I don't know xtensa and especially xtensa assembly language well
enough to do anything else.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YdUmN7n4W5YETUhW@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

2022-01-08 10:46:31 -06:00

alpha

exit: Add and use make_task_dead.

2021-12-13 12:04:45 -06:00

arc

Merge branch 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2021-11-10 16:15:54 -08:00

arm

exit: Add and use make_task_dead.

2021-12-13 12:04:45 -06:00

arm64

exit: Add and use make_task_dead.