Re: [PATCH] kthread: Fix return value of kthread_create() upon SIGKILL.

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Jun 03 2014 - 17:35:38 EST


On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> >From c41fa0b9294900a86167d6c8db392d99dde09774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> [3.13+]

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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