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sethostname/setdomainname: notify userspace when there is a change in uts_kern_table
authorSasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:03:55 +0000 (11:03 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:17:29 +0000 (15:17 +1000)
sethostname() and setdomainname() notify userspace on failure (without
modifying uts_kern_table).  Change things so that we only notify userspace
on success, when uts_kern_table was actually modified.

Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/sys.c

index ba0ae8eea6fbc32fb159c6dbf8d9868bcbaa1452..bc05f26173d363aadb0cb187f488052ff1570ce8 100644 (file)
@@ -1295,8 +1295,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sethostname, char __user *, name, int, len)
                memcpy(u->nodename, tmp, len);
                memset(u->nodename + len, 0, sizeof(u->nodename) - len);
                errno = 0;
+               uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_HOSTNAME);
        }
-       uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_HOSTNAME);
        up_write(&uts_sem);
        return errno;
 }
@@ -1346,8 +1346,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setdomainname, char __user *, name, int, len)
                memcpy(u->domainname, tmp, len);
                memset(u->domainname + len, 0, sizeof(u->domainname) - len);
                errno = 0;
+               uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_DOMAINNAME);
        }
-       uts_proc_notify(UTS_PROC_DOMAINNAME);
        up_write(&uts_sem);
        return errno;
 }