Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
"This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
tasks.
Commit
169a5179aab6 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
struct kthread possible.
Here, commit
14549687236b ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
enough to be backportable.
The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
up and cause the code to make sense.
In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
thread.
I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
sitting in linux-next"
* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
if (sp)
childregs->sp = sp;
- if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_IO_WORKER)) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
- task_user_gs(p) = get_user_gs(current_pt_regs());
-#endif
-
+ if (unlikely(args->fn)) {
/*
- * An IO thread is a user space thread, but it doesn't
- * return to ret_after_fork().
+ * A user space thread, but it doesn't return to
+ * ret_after_fork().
*
* In order to indicate that to tools like gdb,
* we reset the stack and instruction pointers.
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <linux/init_syscalls.h>
+ #include <linux/task_work.h>
#include <linux/umh.h>
-static ssize_t __init xwrite(struct file *file, const char *p, size_t count,
- loff_t *pos)
+static __initdata bool csum_present;
+static __initdata u32 io_csum;
+
+static ssize_t __init xwrite(struct file *file, const unsigned char *p,
+ size_t count, loff_t *pos)
{
ssize_t out = 0;