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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kmod.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index 5c470c57fb5..842f8015d7f 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data) if (pid < 0) { sub_info->retval = pid; } else { + int ret; + /* * Normally it is bogus to call wait4() from in-kernel because * wait4() wants to write the exit code to a userspace address. @@ -185,7 +187,15 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data) * * Thus the __user pointer cast is valid here. */ - sys_wait4(pid, (int __user *) &sub_info->retval, 0, NULL); + sys_wait4(pid, (int __user *)&ret, 0, NULL); + + /* + * If ret is 0, either ____call_usermodehelper failed and the + * real error code is already in sub_info->retval or + * sub_info->retval is 0 anyway, so don't mess with it then. + */ + if (ret) + sub_info->retval = ret; } complete(sub_info->complete); |