On 2020/07/01 19:08, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > On 30.06.20 19:57, Luis Chamberlain wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:54:10AM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 08:37:55PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> 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); Well, it is not br_stp_call_user() but br_stp_start() which is expecting to set sub_info->retval for both KWIFEXITED() case and KWIFSIGNALED() case. That is, sub_info->retval needs to carry raw value (i.e. without "umh: fix processed error when UMH_WAIT_PROC is used" will be the correct behavior).