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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index d6a6da547e41..18a5cb17035a 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -764,6 +764,29 @@ struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm) EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mm_exe_file); /** + * get_task_exe_file - acquire a reference to the task's executable file + * + * Returns %NULL if task's mm (if any) has no associated executable file or + * this is a kernel thread with borrowed mm (see the comment above get_task_mm). + * User must release file via fput(). + */ +struct file *get_task_exe_file(struct task_struct *task) +{ + struct file *exe_file = NULL; + struct mm_struct *mm; + + task_lock(task); + mm = task->mm; + if (mm) { + if (!(task->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) + exe_file = get_mm_exe_file(mm); + } + task_unlock(task); + return exe_file; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_task_exe_file); + +/** * get_task_mm - acquire a reference to the task's mm * * Returns %NULL if the task has no mm. Checks PF_KTHREAD (meaning @@ -879,14 +902,12 @@ void mm_release(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm) deactivate_mm(tsk, mm); /* - * If we're exiting normally, clear a user-space tid field if - * requested. We leave this alone when dying by signal, to leave - * the value intact in a core dump, and to save the unnecessary - * trouble, say, a killed vfork parent shouldn't touch this mm. - * Userland only wants this done for a sys_exit. + * Signal userspace if we're not exiting with a core dump + * because we want to leave the value intact for debugging + * purposes. */ if (tsk->clear_child_tid) { - if (!(tsk->flags & PF_SIGNALED) && + if (!(tsk->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP) && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) { /* * We don't check the error code - if userspace has |