Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2014 14:35:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kthread: Fix return value of kthread_create() upon SIGKILL. |
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >From c41fa0b9294900a86167d6c8db392d99dde09774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 21:46:24 +0900 > Subject: [PATCH] kthread: Fix return value of kthread_create() upon SIGKILL. > > Commit 786235eeb "kthread: make kthread_create() killable" meant for > allowing kthread_create() to abort as soon as killed by the OOM-killer. > But returning -ENOMEM is wrong if killed by SIGKILL from userspace. > Change kthread_create() to return -EINTR upon SIGKILL. > > Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> > Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [3.13+]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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