From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tetsuo Handa , Oleg Nesterov , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 3.14 022/110] kthread: fix return value of kthread_create() upon SIGKILL. Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:46:19 -0700 Message-Id: <20140628174546.548375677@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140628174545.354748696@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140628174545.354748696@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tetsuo Handa commit 8fe6929cfd43c44834858a53e129ffdc7c166298 upstream. Commit 786235eeba0e ("kthread: make kthread_create() killable") meant for allowing kthread_create() to abort as soon as killed by the OOM-killer. But returning -ENOMEM is wrong if killed by SIGKILL from userspace. Change kthread_create() to return -EINTR upon SIGKILL. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/kthread.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthrea * kthread_stop() has been called). The return value should be zero * or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop(). * - * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). + * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) or ERR_PTR(-EINTR). */ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data), void *data, int node, @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_no * that thread. */ if (xchg(&create->done, NULL)) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + return ERR_PTR(-EINTR); /* * kthreadd (or new kernel thread) will call complete() * shortly.