linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] call_usermodehelper_setup() should use GFP

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Message-ID: <4822F8E4.4040401@goop.org>
Date:	Thu, 08 May 2008 13:58:12 +0100
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] call_usermodehelper_setup() should use GFP_KERNEL

KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks good comment!
>
>   
>>> How many times do we have to make this mistake :(
>>>
>>> Only the caller knows what allocation mode the callee can use. 
>>> call_usermodehelper_setup() should be extended to take a gfp_t argument.
>>>       
>> Yeah, but making the caller need to know about the internal 
>> implementation details of the callee (ie, whether it needs to allocate 
>> memory or not) leads to pretty warty interfaces.  In this case, you 
>> could push the gfp_t up to the call_usermodehelper_setup() level, but 
>> pushing it any higher wouldn't make much sense.
>>     
>
> No problem :)
> almost caller doesn't call call_usermodehelper_setup() directly.
>
> thus, call_usermodehelper_setup() chage is hided in call_usermodehelper().
>   

Yep, seems reasonable.  Are there any UMH_NO_WAIT callers who could be 
using GFP_KERNEL?

> ----------------chunk of my current testing patch-----------------------------
>
> @@ -68,8 +69,9 @@ static inline int
>  call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, enum umh_wait wait)
>  {
>  	struct subprocess_info *info;
> +	gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
>  
> -	info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp);
> +	info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask);
>  	if (info == NULL)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
>
>   

    J
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