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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,  linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org,  tools@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 08/19] exec: add API specification for execve
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:39:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ikkvv018.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250614134858.790460-9-sashal@kernel.org> (Sasha Levin's message of "Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:48:47 -0400")

* Sasha Levin:

> +	KAPI_RETURN("long", "Does not return on success; returns -1 on error")
> +		.type = KAPI_TYPE_INT,
> +		.check_type = KAPI_RETURN_ERROR_CHECK,
> +	KAPI_RETURN_END

Is the -1 part correct?

Many later errors during execve are not recoverable and result in execve
succeeding (nominally) and a fatal signal being delivered to the process
instead.  Not sure if the description covers that.

What about the effect of unblocking a parent thread that has vfork'ed?

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-16 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-14 13:48 [RFC 00/19] Kernel API Specification Framework Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 01/19] kernel/api: introduce kernel API specification framework Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 02/19] eventpoll: add API specification for epoll_create1 Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 03/19] eventpoll: add API specification for epoll_create Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 04/19] eventpoll: add API specification for epoll_ctl Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 05/19] eventpoll: add API specification for epoll_wait Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 06/19] eventpoll: add API specification for epoll_pwait Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 07/19] eventpoll: add API specification for epoll_pwait2 Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 08/19] exec: add API specification for execve Sasha Levin
2025-06-16 21:39   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2025-06-17  1:51     ` Sasha Levin
2025-06-17  7:13       ` Florian Weimer
2025-06-17 22:58         ` Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 09/19] exec: add API specification for execveat Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 10/19] mm/mlock: add API specification for mlock Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 11/19] mm/mlock: add API specification for mlock2 Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 12/19] mm/mlock: add API specification for mlockall Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 13/19] mm/mlock: add API specification for munlock Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 14/19] mm/mlock: add API specification for munlockall Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 15/19] kernel/api: add debugfs interface for kernel API specifications Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 16/19] kernel/api: add IOCTL specification infrastructure Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 17/19] fwctl: add detailed IOCTL API specifications Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 18/19] binder: " Sasha Levin
2025-06-14 13:48 ` [RFC 19/19] tools/kapi: Add kernel API specification extraction tool Sasha Levin
2025-06-17 12:08 ` [RFC 00/19] Kernel API Specification Framework David Laight
2025-06-18 21:29 ` Kees Cook
2025-06-19  0:22   ` Sasha Levin
2025-06-23 13:28     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-24 14:06       ` Cyril Hrubis
2025-06-24 14:30         ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-24 15:27           ` Cyril Hrubis
2025-06-24 20:04       ` Sasha Levin
2025-06-25  8:49         ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-25  8:52         ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-25 15:46           ` Cyril Hrubis
2025-06-25 15:55           ` Sasha Levin
2025-06-26  8:32             ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-26  8:37               ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-26 16:23                 ` Sasha Levin
2025-06-27  6:23                   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-30 14:27                     ` Sasha Levin
2025-07-01  6:11                       ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-25  8:56         ` Dmitry Vyukov
2025-06-25 16:23           ` Sasha Levin

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