From ac331d158e198d2a91a5b0a3ec4ca9991fdb57af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:45:38 -0700 Subject: call_usermodehelper(): increase reliability Presently call_usermodehelper_setup() uses GFP_ATOMIC. but it can return NULL _very_ easily. GFP_ATOMIC is needed only when we can't sleep. and, GFP_KERNEL is robust and better. thus, I add gfp_mask argument to call_usermodehelper_setup(). So, its callers pass the gfp_t as below: call_usermodehelper() and call_usermodehelper_keys(): depend on 'wait' argument. call_usermodehelper_pipe(): always GFP_KERNEL because always run under process context. orderly_poweroff(): pass to GFP_ATOMIC because may run under interrupt context. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: "Paul Menage" Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kmod.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c') diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index 2989f67c4446..2456d1a0befb 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -352,16 +352,17 @@ static inline void register_pm_notifier_callback(void) {} * @path: path to usermode executable * @argv: arg vector for process * @envp: environment for process + * @gfp_mask: gfp mask for memory allocation * * Returns either %NULL on allocation failure, or a subprocess_info * structure. This should be passed to call_usermodehelper_exec to * exec the process and free the structure. */ -struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, - char **argv, char **envp) +struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv, + char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask) { struct subprocess_info *sub_info; - sub_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct subprocess_info), GFP_ATOMIC); + sub_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct subprocess_info), gfp_mask); if (!sub_info) goto out; @@ -494,7 +495,7 @@ int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, struct subprocess_info *sub_info; int ret; - sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp); + sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, GFP_KERNEL); if (sub_info == NULL) return -ENOMEM; -- cgit