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Linus Torvalds 5147da902e Merge branch 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull exit cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "While looking at some issues related to the exit path in the kernel I
  found several instances where the code is not using the existing
  abstractions properly.

  This set of changes introduces force_fatal_sig a way of sending a
  signal and not allowing it to be caught, and corrects the misuse of
  the existing abstractions that I found.

  A lot of the misuse of the existing abstractions are silly things such
  as doing something after calling a no return function, rolling BUG by
  hand, doing more work than necessary to terminate a kernel thread, or
  calling do_exit(SIGKILL) instead of calling force_sig(SIGKILL).

  In the review a deficiency in force_fatal_sig and force_sig_seccomp
  where ptrace or sigaction could prevent the delivery of the signal was
  found. I have added a change that adds SA_IMMUTABLE to change that
  makes it impossible to interrupt the delivery of those signals, and
  allows backporting to fix force_sig_seccomp

  And Arnd found an issue where a function passed to kthread_run had the
  wrong prototype, and after my cleanup was failing to build."

* 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (23 commits)
  soc: ti: fix wkup_m3_rproc_boot_thread return type
  signal: Add SA_IMMUTABLE to ensure forced siganls do not get changed
  signal: Replace force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) with force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV)
  exit/r8188eu: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  exit/rtl8712: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  exit/rtl8723bs: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  signal/x86: In emulate_vsyscall force a signal instead of calling do_exit
  signal/sparc32: In setup_rt_frame and setup_fram use force_fatal_sig
  signal/sparc32: Exit with a fatal signal when try_to_clear_window_buffer fails
  exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure
  signal: Implement force_fatal_sig
  exit/kthread: Have kernel threads return instead of calling do_exit
  signal/s390: Use force_sigsegv in default_trap_handler
  signal/vm86_32: Properly send SIGSEGV when the vm86 state cannot be saved.
  signal/vm86_32: Replace open coded BUG_ON with an actual BUG_ON
  signal/sparc: In setup_tsb_params convert open coded BUG into BUG
  signal/powerpc: On swapcontext failure force SIGSEGV
  signal/sh: Use force_sig(SIGKILL) instead of do_group_exit(SIGKILL)
  signal/mips: Update (_save|_restore)_fp_context to fail with -EFAULT
  signal/sparc32: Remove unreachable do_exit in do_sparc_fault
  ...
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.