In commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them.
I believe my first patch in this series is enough to fix the bug
and is simple enough and obvious enough to be backportable.
The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
up and cause the code to make sense.
There is one rough spot in this change. In the init process before the
user space init process is exec'd there is a lot going on. I have found
when async_schedule_domain is low on memory or has more than 32K callers
executing do_populate_rootfs will now run in a user space thread making
flush_delayed_fput meaningless, and __fput_sync is unusable. I solved
this as I did in usermode_driver.c with an added explicit task_work_run.
I point this out as I have seen some talk about making flushing file
handles more explicit.
Eric W. Biederman (7):
kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/arc/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/csky/kernel/process.c | 15 ++++++-------
arch/h8300/kernel/process.c | 10 ++++-----
arch/hexagon/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/m68k/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/microblaze/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/nios2/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 18 +++++++++-------
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/s390/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/um/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/sched.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 8 +++----
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 18 +++++++++-------
arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c | 17 ++++++++-------
fs/exec.c | 8 ++++---
include/linux/sched/task.h | 8 +++++--
init/initramfs.c | 2 ++
init/main.c | 2 +-
kernel/fork.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
kernel/umh.c | 6 +++---
32 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)
Eric
