On 24.06.20 20:32, Christian Borntraeger wrote: [...]> > So the translations look correct. But your change is actually a sematic change > if(ret) will only trigger if there is an error > if (KWIFEXITED(ret)) will always trigger when the process ends. So we will always overwrite -ECHILD > and we did not do it before. > So the right fix is diff --git a/kernel/umh.c b/kernel/umh.c index f81e8698e36e..a3a3196e84d1 100644 --- a/kernel/umh.c +++ b/kernel/umh.c @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static void call_usermodehelper_exec_sync(struct subprocess_info *sub_info) * the real error code is already in sub_info->retval or * sub_info->retval is 0 anyway, so don't mess with it then. */ - if (KWIFEXITED(ret)) + if (KWEXITSTATUS(ret)) sub_info->retval = KWEXITSTATUS(ret); } I think.