From 0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:52:01 -0500 Subject: exit: Add and use make_task_dead. There are two big uses of do_exit. The first is it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call. The second use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer in kernel code. Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle catastrophic failure. In time this can probably be reduced to just a light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new concept. Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code is doing. As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit rewind_stack_and_make_dead. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- arch/alpha/mm/fault.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/alpha/mm/fault.c') diff --git a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c index eee5102c3d88..e9193d52222e 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ retry: printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request at " "virtual address %016lx\n", address); die_if_kernel("Oops", regs, cause, (unsigned long*)regs - 16); - do_exit(SIGKILL); + make_task_dead(SIGKILL); /* We ran out of memory, or some other thing happened to us that made us unable to handle the page fault gracefully. */ -- cgit v1.2.3