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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-06-28 14:52:01 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2021-12-13 12:04:45 -0600
commit0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 (patch)
treef9f4cf6d7c1deccaa34ad6f7af345bff52b63c12 /tools/objtool/check.c
parent5e354747b2c91f64544b97760d38e2d3280307b2 (diff)
downloadlinux-0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7.tar.gz
exit: Add and use make_task_dead.
There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool/check.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/check.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index 21735829b860..e6ab5687770b 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ static bool __dead_end_function(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func,
 		"panic",
 		"do_exit",
 		"do_task_dead",
+		"make_task_dead",
 		"__module_put_and_exit",
 		"complete_and_exit",
 		"__reiserfs_panic",
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ static bool __dead_end_function(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func,
 		"fortify_panic",
 		"usercopy_abort",
 		"machine_real_restart",
-		"rewind_stack_do_exit",
+		"rewind_stack_and_make_dead"
 		"kunit_try_catch_throw",
 		"xen_start_kernel",
 		"cpu_bringup_and_idle",