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author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2020-08-11 18:34:10 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-12 10:57:59 -0700 |
commit | 8043fc147a97ec2eefc582487f344f2cbe86d12e (patch) | |
tree | 05be60738ff9974830290aa6a4459336ecdd45d9 /drivers | |
parent | f48ff83e9c1a8fc2e8bfedb4855933eb1ed159b2 (diff) |
kernel: add a kernel_wait helper
Add a helper that waits for a pid and stores the status in the passed in
kernel pointer. Use it to fix the usage of kernel_wait4 in
call_usermodehelper_exec_sync that only happens to work due to the
implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for kernel threads.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721130449.5008-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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