[PATCH 19/19] UML - Make mconsole version requests happen in a process

[Jeff Dike]

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 <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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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