[PATCH] kthread: remove kthread_exit()

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

In 28aaa9c39945 ("kthread: consolidate kthread exit paths to prevent use-after-free")
we folded kthread_exit() into do_exit() when we fixed a nasty UAF bug.
We left kthread_exit() around as an alias to do_exit(). Remove it
completely.

Reported-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/1ff1bce2-8bb4-463c-a631-16e14f4ea7e2@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/kthread.h    | 1 -
 include/linux/module.h     | 2 +-
 include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 2 +-
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c      | 1 -
 kernel/kthread.c           | 8 ++++----
 kernel/module/main.c       | 2 +-
 lib/kunit/try-catch.c      | 2 +-
 7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index a01a474719a7..37982eca94f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_struct *k);
 int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k);
 void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k);
 void kthread_parkme(void);
-#define kthread_exit(result) do_exit(result)
 void kthread_complete_and_exit(struct completion *, long) __noreturn;
 int kthreads_update_housekeeping(void);
 void kthread_do_exit(struct kthread *, long);
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 14f391b186c6..79ac4a700b39 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ static inline int unregister_module_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#define module_put_and_kthread_exit(code) kthread_exit(code)
+#define module_put_and_kthread_exit(code) do_exit(code)
 
 static inline void print_modules(void)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
index 4dc14c7a711b..c86fc8a87eae 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static inline void svc_thread_init_status(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, int err)
 {
 	store_release_wake_up(&rqstp->rq_err, err);
 	if (err)
-		kthread_exit(1);
+		do_exit(1);
 }
 
 struct svc_deferred_req {
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 401d6c4960ec..8db79e593156 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -25261,7 +25261,6 @@ BTF_ID(func, __x64_sys_exit_group)
 BTF_ID(func, do_exit)
 BTF_ID(func, do_group_exit)
 BTF_ID(func, kthread_complete_and_exit)
-BTF_ID(func, kthread_exit)
 BTF_ID(func, make_task_dead)
 BTF_SET_END(noreturn_deny)
 
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 791210daf8b4..1447c14c8540 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ void __noreturn kthread_complete_and_exit(struct completion *comp, long code)
 	if (comp)
 		complete(comp);
 
-	kthread_exit(code);
+	do_exit(code);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_complete_and_exit);
 
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
 	if (!done) {
 		kfree(create->full_name);
 		kfree(create);
-		kthread_exit(-EINTR);
+		do_exit(-EINTR);
 	}
 
 	self->full_name = create->full_name;
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
 		__kthread_parkme(self);
 		ret = threadfn(data);
 	}
-	kthread_exit(ret);
+	do_exit(ret);
 }
 
 /* called from kernel_clone() to get node information for about to be created task */
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_park);
  * instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread will exit without
  * calling threadfn().
  *
- * If threadfn() may call kthread_exit() itself, the caller must ensure
+ * If threadfn() may call do_exit() itself, the caller must ensure
  * task_struct can't go away.
  *
  * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index c3ce106c70af..340b4dc5c692 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static int mod_strncmp(const char *str_a, const char *str_b, size_t n)
 void __noreturn __module_put_and_kthread_exit(struct module *mod, long code)
 {
 	module_put(mod);
-	kthread_exit(code);
+	do_exit(code);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__module_put_and_kthread_exit);
 
diff --git a/lib/kunit/try-catch.c b/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
index d84a879f0a78..99d9603a2cfd 100644
--- a/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
+++ b/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 void __noreturn kunit_try_catch_throw(struct kunit_try_catch *try_catch)
 {
 	try_catch->try_result = -EFAULT;
-	kthread_exit(0);
+	do_exit(0);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kunit_try_catch_throw);
 

---
base-commit: c107785c7e8dbabd1c18301a1c362544b5786282
change-id: 20260306-work-kernel-exit-2e8fd9e2c2a1