linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] UML - kernel

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Message-ID: <20070402165012.GA7626@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
Date:	Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:50:12 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, devzero@....de
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] UML - kernel_thread shouldn't panic

kernel_thread should just return an error value on do_fork failure, not panic.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@...ux.intel.com>
--
 arch/um/kernel/process.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/kernel/process.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-mm.orig/arch/um/kernel/process.c	2007-04-02 11:51:43.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/kernel/process.c	2007-04-02 12:01:00.000000000 -0400
@@ -97,8 +97,6 @@ int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), voi
 	current->thread.request.u.thread.arg = arg;
 	pid = do_fork(CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED | flags, 0,
 		      &current->thread.regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
-	if(pid < 0)
-		panic("do_fork failed in kernel_thread, errno = %d", pid);
 	return pid;
 }
 
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