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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2025-08-20 18:39:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-09-13 17:32:49 -0700 |
| commit | f7071db2fe3d20991a35043b32012e1b37d32cc0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dc6afefab33a004385196386ffa71568fa25f5c | |
| parent | b32730e68d326bef5c081c4b7cdd275c45b1902b (diff) | |
fork: kill the pointless lower_32_bits() in create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread()
Unlike sys_clone(), these helpers have only in kernel users which should
pass the correct "flags" argument. lower_32_bits(flags) just adds the
unnecessary confusion and doesn't allow to use the CLONE_ flags which
don't fit into 32 bits.
create_io_thread() looks especially confusing because:
- "flags" is a compile-time constant, so lower_32_bits() simply
has no effect
- .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(flags) & CSIGNAL) is harmless but
doesn't look right, copy_process(CLONE_THREAD) will ignore this
argument anyway.
None of these helpers actually need CLONE_UNTRACED or "& ~CSIGNAL", but
their presence does not add any confusion and improves code clarity.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250820163946.GA18549@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index e06cfaa85a84..a8674ba2b33b 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -2537,11 +2537,9 @@ struct task_struct * __init fork_idle(int cpu) struct task_struct *create_io_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int node) { unsigned long flags = CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD| - CLONE_IO; + CLONE_IO|CLONE_VM|CLONE_UNTRACED; struct kernel_clone_args args = { - .flags = ((lower_32_bits(flags) | CLONE_VM | - CLONE_UNTRACED) & ~CSIGNAL), - .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(flags) & CSIGNAL), + .flags = flags, .fn = fn, .fn_arg = arg, .io_thread = 1, @@ -2653,9 +2651,8 @@ pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, const char *name, unsigned long flags) { struct kernel_clone_args args = { - .flags = ((lower_32_bits(flags) | CLONE_VM | - CLONE_UNTRACED) & ~CSIGNAL), - .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(flags) & CSIGNAL), + .flags = ((flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED) & ~CSIGNAL), + .exit_signal = (flags & CSIGNAL), .fn = fn, .fn_arg = arg, .name = name, @@ -2671,9 +2668,8 @@ pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, const char *name, pid_t user_mode_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags) { struct kernel_clone_args args = { - .flags = ((lower_32_bits(flags) | CLONE_VM | - CLONE_UNTRACED) & ~CSIGNAL), - .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(flags) & CSIGNAL), + .flags = ((flags | CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED) & ~CSIGNAL), + .exit_signal = (flags & CSIGNAL), .fn = fn, .fn_arg = arg, }; |