Handling a host mconsole version request must be done in a process context
rather than interrupt context now that utsname information can be
process-specific rather than global.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Index: linux-2.6.16/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_user.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16.orig/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_user.c
+++ linux-2.6.16/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_user.c
@@ -18,7 +18,12 @@
#include "umid.h"
static struct mconsole_command commands[] = {
- { "version", mconsole_version, MCONSOLE_INTR },
+ /* With uts namespaces, uts information becomes process-specific, so
+ * we need a process context. If we try handling this in interrupt
+ * context, we may hit an exiting process without a valid uts
+ * namespace.
+ */
+ { "version", mconsole_version, MCONSOLE_PROC },
{ "halt", mconsole_halt, MCONSOLE_PROC },
{ "reboot", mconsole_reboot, MCONSOLE_PROC },
{ "config", mconsole_config, MCONSOLE_PROC },
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