From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933798AbXDBQyw (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:54:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964932AbXDBQye (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:54:34 -0400 Received: from [198.99.130.12] ([198.99.130.12]:40625 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933786AbXDBQyS (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:54:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:50:12 -0400 From: Jeff Dike To: Andrew Morton , devzero@web.de Cc: LKML , uml-devel Subject: [PATCH 4/4] UML - kernel_thread shouldn't panic Message-ID: <20070402165012.GA7626@c2.user-mode-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org kernel_thread should just return an error value on do_fork failure, not panic. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike -- 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, ¤t->thread.regs, 0, NULL, NULL); - if(pid < 0) - panic("do_fork failed in kernel_thread, errno = %d", pid); return pid; }