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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-07-05 12:08:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-07-06 13:57:04 -0700
commit793285fcafce4719a05e0c99fa74b188157fe7fe (patch)
tree3395530c1d4e604beac506c703b3093bb13f23ee /kernel/ptrace.c
parent82e3310ace59794ecf0f531eca94647b2863dfda (diff)
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cred_guard_mutex: do not return -EINTR to user-space
do_execve() and ptrace_attach() return -EINTR if mutex_lock_interruptible(->cred_guard_mutex) fails. This is not right, change the code to return ERESTARTNOINTR. Perhaps we should also change proc_pid_attr_write(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 61c78b2c07ba..082c320e4dbf 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task)
* interference; SUID, SGID and LSM creds get determined differently
* under ptrace.
*/
- retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->cred_guard_mutex);
- if (retval < 0)
+ retval = -ERESTARTNOINTR;
+ if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&task->cred_guard_mutex))
goto out;
task_lock(task);