[PATCH v3 4/4] um: Prohibit the VM_CLONE flag in run_helper_thread()
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Mar 20 01:32:31 PDT 2025
On Wed, 2025-03-19 at 21:55 +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> Directly creating helper threads with VM_CLONE using clone can
> compromise the thread safety of errno. Since all these helper
> threads have been converted to use os_run_helper_thread(), let's
> prevent using this flag in run_helper_thread().
>
I notice that now there's only one user left, the SIGWINCH handler,
maybe we could change that too? Anyway not related to this patch, of
course.
johannes
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