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From: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Do notify userspace when there is change in uts_kern_table.
Date: Wed,  4 Apr 2012 17:06:31 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333539391-11036-1-git-send-email-sasikanth.v19@gmail.com> (raw)

sethostname and setdomainname notifies userspace on failure (without modifying uts_kern_table) too

Notify userspace if there is change in uts_kern_table, on failure don't notify userspace 

Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/sys.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index e7006eb..6c569a8 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1295,8 +1295,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sethostname, char __user *, name, int, len)
 		memcpy(u->nodename, tmp, len);
 		memset(u->nodename + len, 0, sizeof(u->nodename) - len);
 		errno = 0;
+		uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_HOSTNAME);
 	}
-	uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_HOSTNAME);
 	up_write(&uts_sem);
 	return errno;
 }
@@ -1346,8 +1346,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setdomainname, char __user *, name, int, len)
 		memcpy(u->domainname, tmp, len);
 		memset(u->domainname + len, 0, sizeof(u->domainname) - len);
 		errno = 0;
+		uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_DOMAINNAME);
 	}
-	uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_DOMAINNAME);
 	up_write(&uts_sem);
 	return errno;
 }
-- 
1.7.3.4


             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-04 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04 11:36 Sasikantha babu [this message]
2012-04-04 11:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
     [not found]   ` <CAOJFanVhC5AAzDVRmm9qFTj8wk5k-3svKQG3i5GGiGx=zqU5dw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-04-19 14:51     ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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