introduce PF_KTHREAD flag

Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads.  It is set
by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in
kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead).

daemonize() was changed as well.  In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is
racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway.

This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler().
Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in
start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC.  But I think this
doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die
soon.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index af249af4ccab..cd2e8c9b1249 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1326,6 +1326,7 @@ int do_execve(char * filename,
         if (retval < 0)
                 goto out;
 
+        current->flags &= ~PF_KTHREAD;
         retval = search_binary_handler(bprm,regs);
         if (retval >= 0) {
                 /* execve success */