linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] mn10300: ->restart_block.fn needs to be reset on sigreturn

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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:47:59 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-am33-list@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] mn10300: ->restart_block.fn needs to be reset on sigreturn

From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>

Reset restart_block.fn on executing a sigreturn such that any currently
pending system call restarts will be forced to return -EINTR.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 arch/mn10300/kernel/signal.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/arch/mn10300/kernel/signal.c b/arch/mn10300/kernel/signal.c
index 4ef9925..5a2c004 100644
--- a/arch/mn10300/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/mn10300/kernel/signal.c
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ static int restore_sigcontext(struct pt_regs *regs,
 {
 	unsigned int err = 0;
 
+	/* Always make any pending restarted system calls return -EINTR */
+	current_thread_info()->restart_block.fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
+
 	if (is_using_fpu(current))
 		fpu_kill_state(current);
 

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