generic: convert crypto-ocf from kernel_thread to kthread
authorGabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:31:44 +0000 (15:31 +0000)
committerGabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:31:44 +0000 (15:31 +0000)
recent kernels have finally stopped exporting kernel_thread, since a
deprecation circa 2006.  This patch attempts to convert to the newer
kernel kthread API, particularly in random.c

[juhosg: remove randomproc variable, it is not required after the patch]

Signed-off-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 35456

target/linux/generic/files/crypto/ocf/random.c

index a5f2f648c734280d2e5e71a21904a38e159ca9a0..9fc070ed42b7fa46ac58bfd7ced1c5e0b3bf5bb7 100644 (file)
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <cryptodev.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OCF_FIPS
@@ -79,9 +80,9 @@ struct random_op {
        void *arg;
 };
 
+static struct task_struct *random_thread;
 static int random_proc(void *arg);
 
-static pid_t           randomproc = (pid_t) -1;
 static spinlock_t      random_lock;
 
 /*
@@ -141,12 +142,10 @@ crypto_rregister(
        spin_lock_irqsave(&random_lock, flags);
        list_add_tail(&rops->random_list, &random_ops);
        if (!started) {
-               randomproc = kernel_thread(random_proc, NULL, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES);
-               if (randomproc < 0) {
-                       ret = randomproc;
-                       printk("crypto: crypto_rregister cannot start random thread; "
-                                       "error %d", ret);
-               } else
+               random_thread = kthread_run(random_proc, NULL, "ocf-random");
+               if (IS_ERR(random_thread))
+                       ret = PTR_ERR(random_thread);
+               else
                        started = 1;
        }
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&random_lock, flags);
@@ -172,7 +171,7 @@ crypto_runregister_all(u_int32_t driverid)
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&random_lock, flags);
        if (list_empty(&random_ops) && started)
-               kill_proc(randomproc, SIGKILL, 1);
+               kthread_stop(random_thread);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&random_lock, flags);
        return(0);
 }
@@ -203,7 +202,6 @@ random_proc(void *arg)
        sprintf(current->comm, "ocf-random");
 #else
        daemonize("ocf-random");
-       allow_signal(SIGKILL);
 #endif
 
        (void) get_fs();
@@ -306,12 +304,11 @@ random_proc(void *arg)
 #endif
                }
        }
-       
+
        kfree(buf);
 
 bad_alloc:
        spin_lock_irq(&random_lock);
-       randomproc = (pid_t) -1;
        started = 0;
        spin_unlock_irq(&random_lock);