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>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index f702a6a63686..bfa513c5b227 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -884,6 +884,15 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_exit);
 
+void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Take the task off the cpu after something catastrophic has
+	 * happened.
+	 */
+	do_exit(signr);
+}
+
 void complete_and_exit(struct completion *comp, long code)
 {
 	if (comp)