[PATCH] uml: make execvp safe for our usage

Reimplement execvp for our purposes - after we call fork() it is fundamentally
unsafe to use the kernel allocator - current is not valid there.  So we simply
pass to our modified execvp() a preallocated buffer.  This fixes a real bug
and works very well in testing (I've seen indirectly warning messages from the
forked thread - they went on the pipe connected to its stdout and where read
as a number by UML, when calling read_output().  I verified the obtained
number corresponded to "BUG:").

The added use of __cant_sleep() is not a new bug since __cant_sleep() is
already used in the same function - passing an atomicity parameter would be
better but it would require huge change, stating that this function must not
be called in atomic context and can sleep is a better idea (will make sure of
this gradually).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/include/os.h b/arch/um/include/os.h
index 6516f6dca96d..13a86bd383d3 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/os.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/os.h
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ extern unsigned long __do_user_copy(void *to, const void *from, int n,
                                     void (*op)(void *to, const void *from,
                                                int n), int *faulted_out);
 
+/* execvp.c */
+extern int execvp_noalloc(char *buf, const char *file, char *const argv[]);
 /* helper.c */
 extern int run_helper(void (*pre_exec)(void *), void *pre_data, char **argv,
                       unsigned long *stack_out);