[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, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/Makefile b/arch/um/os-Linux/Makefile
index b4183929b32c..2f8c79464015 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/Makefile
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/Makefile
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # Licensed under the GPL
 #
 
-obj-y = aio.o elf_aux.o file.o helper.o irq.o main.o mem.o process.o sigio.o \
-        signal.o start_up.o time.o trap.o tty.o uaccess.o umid.o tls.o \
+obj-y = aio.o elf_aux.o execvp.o file.o helper.o irq.o main.o mem.o process.o \
+        sigio.o signal.o start_up.o time.o trap.o tty.o uaccess.o umid.o tls.o \
         user_syms.o util.o drivers/ sys-$(SUBARCH)/
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_MODE_SKAS) += skas/
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ user-objs-$(CONFIG_MODE_TT) += tt.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_TTY_LOG) += tty_log.o
 user-objs-$(CONFIG_TTY_LOG) += tty_log.o
 
-USER_OBJS := $(user-objs-y) aio.o elf_aux.o file.o helper.o irq.o main.o mem.o \
-        process.o sigio.o signal.o start_up.o time.o trap.o tty.o tls.o \
-        uaccess.o umid.o util.o
+USER_OBJS := $(user-objs-y) aio.o elf_aux.o execvp.o file.o helper.o irq.o \
+        main.o mem.o process.o sigio.o signal.o start_up.o time.o trap.o tty.o \
+        tls.o uaccess.o umid.o util.o
 
 CFLAGS_user_syms.o += -DSUBARCH_$(SUBARCH)