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-rw-r--r--linux-user/syscall.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index d9f4695..dea827f 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -703,6 +703,7 @@ safe_syscall4(pid_t, wait4, pid_t, pid, int *, status, int, options, \
struct rusage *, rusage)
safe_syscall5(int, waitid, idtype_t, idtype, id_t, id, siginfo_t *, infop, \
int, options, struct rusage *, rusage)
+safe_syscall3(int, execve, const char *, filename, char **, argv, char **, envp)
static inline int host_to_target_sock_type(int host_type)
{
@@ -6179,7 +6180,17 @@ abi_long do_syscall(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1,
if (!(p = lock_user_string(arg1)))
goto execve_efault;
- ret = get_errno(execve(p, argp, envp));
+ /* Although execve() is not an interruptible syscall it is
+ * a special case where we must use the safe_syscall wrapper:
+ * if we allow a signal to happen before we make the host
+ * syscall then we will 'lose' it, because at the point of
+ * execve the process leaves QEMU's control. So we use the
+ * safe syscall wrapper to ensure that we either take the
+ * signal as a guest signal, or else it does not happen
+ * before the execve completes and makes it the other
+ * program's problem.
+ */
+ ret = get_errno(safe_execve(p, argp, envp));
unlock_user(p, arg1, 0);
goto execve_end;