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authorIvan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>2009-04-30 18:08:49 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-05-02 18:36:10 -0400
commit74641f584da8eccf30becfbb5507ab457187db22 (patch)
treeda212b7ae1b5a2a50a4314b3a75df5763623295e /fs/exec.c
parent77b4cf5cb0c9d6010a18030a0e0a8d2aaf6b43ec (diff)
alpha: binfmt_aout fix
This fixes the problem introduced by commit 3bfacef412 (get rid of special-casing the /sbin/loader on alpha): osf/1 ecoff binary segfaults when binfmt_aout built as module. That happens because aout binary handler gets on the top of the binfmt list due to late registration, and kernel attempts to execute the binary without preparatory work that must be done by binfmt_loader. Fixed by changing the registration order of the default binfmt handlers using list_add_tail() and introducing insert_binfmt() function which places new handler on the top of the binfmt list. This might be generally useful for installing arch-specific frontends for default handlers or just for overriding them. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exec.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index a3a8ce83940f..639177b0eeac 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -69,17 +69,18 @@ int suid_dumpable = 0;
69static LIST_HEAD(formats); 69static LIST_HEAD(formats);
70static DEFINE_RWLOCK(binfmt_lock); 70static DEFINE_RWLOCK(binfmt_lock);
71 71
72int register_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt * fmt) 72int __register_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt * fmt, int insert)
73{ 73{
74 if (!fmt) 74 if (!fmt)
75 return -EINVAL; 75 return -EINVAL;
76 write_lock(&binfmt_lock); 76 write_lock(&binfmt_lock);
77 list_add(&fmt->lh, &formats); 77 insert ? list_add(&fmt->lh, &formats) :
78 list_add_tail(&fmt->lh, &formats);
78 write_unlock(&binfmt_lock); 79 write_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
79 return 0; 80 return 0;
80} 81}
81 82
82EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_binfmt); 83EXPORT_SYMBOL(__register_binfmt);
83 84
84void unregister_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt * fmt) 85void unregister_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt * fmt)
85{ 86{