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* [patch 10/14] syslets: x86, mark async unsafe syscalls
@ 2007-02-15 16:52 Ingo Molnar
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From: Ingo Molnar @ 2007-02-15 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Linus Torvalds, Arjan van de Ven, Christoph Hellwig,
	Andrew Morton, Alan Cox, Ulrich Drepper, Zach Brown,
	Evgeniy Polyakov, David S. Miller, Suparna Bhattacharya,
	Davide Libenzi, Thomas Gleixner

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

mark clone() and fork() as not available for async execution.
Both need an intact user context beneath them to work.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/i386/kernel/process.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
@@ -731,6 +731,9 @@ struct task_struct fastcall * __switch_t
 
 asmlinkage int sys_fork(struct pt_regs regs)
 {
+	if (async_syscall(current))
+		return -ENOSYS;
+
 	return do_fork(SIGCHLD, regs.esp, &regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
 }
 
@@ -740,6 +743,9 @@ asmlinkage int sys_clone(struct pt_regs 
 	unsigned long newsp;
 	int __user *parent_tidptr, *child_tidptr;
 
+	if (async_syscall(current))
+		return -ENOSYS;
+
 	clone_flags = regs.ebx;
 	newsp = regs.ecx;
 	parent_tidptr = (int __user *)regs.edx;

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