fork: introduce kernel_clone()

The old _do_fork() helper doesn't follow naming conventions of in-kernel
helpers for syscalls. The process creation cleanup in [1] didn't change the
name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used in quite a
few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the better strategy.

This commit does two things:
1. renames _do_fork() to kernel_clone() but keeps _do_fork() as a simple static
   inline wrapper around kernel_clone().
2. Changes the return type from long to pid_t. This aligns kernel_thread() and
   kernel_clone(). Also, the return value from kernel_clone that is surfaced in
   fork(), vfork(), clone(), and clone3() is taken from pid_vrn() which returns
   a pid_t too.

Follow-up patches will switch each caller of _do_fork() and each place where it
is referenced over to kernel_clone(). After all these changes are done, we can
remove _do_fork() completely and will only be left with kernel_clone().

[1]: 9ba27414f2ec ("Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux")

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index a98965007eef..d4428039c3c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ extern void do_group_exit(int);
 extern void exit_files(struct task_struct *);
 extern void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *);
 
-extern long _do_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs);
+extern pid_t kernel_clone(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs);
+static inline long _do_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
+{
+	return kernel_clone(kargs);
+}
 struct task_struct *fork_idle(int);
 struct mm_struct *copy_init_mm(void);
 extern pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags);