If createion of the new process is aborted due to some erros (lack of memory in my case) kernel will crash because created process is not terminated properly. I just sent SIG_KILL in all such points. Tested on my LM3S1D21 based board Signed-off-by: Max Neklyudov <macscomp@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_flat.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c index 178cb70..79c9838 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c @@ -545,6 +545,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm * bprm, textpos = vm_mmap(bprm->file, 0, text_len, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_EXECUTABLE, 0); if (!textpos || IS_ERR_VALUE(textpos)) { + send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); if (!textpos) textpos = (unsigned long) -ENOMEM; printk("Unable to mmap process text, errno %d\n", (int)-textpos); @@ -558,6 +559,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm * bprm, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 0); if (realdatastart == 0 || IS_ERR_VALUE(realdatastart)) { + send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); if (!realdatastart) realdatastart = (unsigned long) -ENOMEM; printk("Unable to allocate RAM for process data, errno %d\n", @@ -585,6 +587,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm * bprm, data_len + (relocs * sizeof(unsigned long)), &fpos); } if (IS_ERR_VALUE(result)) { + send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); printk("Unable to read data+bss, errno %d\n", (int)-result); vm_munmap(textpos, text_len); vm_munmap(realdatastart, len); @@ -603,6 +606,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm * bprm, PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 0); if (!textpos || IS_ERR_VALUE(textpos)) { + send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); if (!textpos) textpos = (unsigned long) -ENOMEM; printk("Unable to allocate RAM for process text/data, errno %d\n", @@ -653,6 +657,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm * bprm, } } if (IS_ERR_VALUE(result)) { + send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); printk("Unable to read code+data+bss, errno %d\n",(int)-result); vm_munmap(textpos, text_len + data_len + extra + MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(unsigned long)); -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html