linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm 2/3] call_usermodehelper: simplify/fix UMH_NO

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Message-ID: <20100309214501.GA32625@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:45:01 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -mm 2/3] call_usermodehelper: simplify/fix UMH_NO_WAIT case

__call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) has 2 problems:

	- if kernel_thread() fails, call_usermodehelper_freeinfo()
	  is not called.

	- for unknown reason UMH_NO_WAIT has UMH_WAIT_PROC logic,
	  we spawn yet another thread which waits until the user
	  mode application exits.

Change the UMH_NO_WAIT code to use ____call_usermodehelper() instead of
wait_for_helper(), and do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() unconditionally.
We can rely on CLONE_VFORK, do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) until the child exits
or execs.

With or without this patch UMH_NO_WAIT does not report the error if
kernel_thread() fails, this is correct since the caller doesn't wait
for result.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---

 kernel/kmod.c |   10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- mm/kernel/kmod.c~2_UMH_NO_WAIT	2010-03-09 21:31:09.000000000 +0100
+++ mm/kernel/kmod.c	2010-03-09 21:56:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -224,10 +224,7 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data)
 			sub_info->retval = ret;
 	}
 
-	if (sub_info->wait == UMH_NO_WAIT)
-		call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
-	else
-		complete(sub_info->complete);
+	complete(sub_info->complete);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -236,13 +233,13 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct
 {
 	struct subprocess_info *sub_info =
 		container_of(work, struct subprocess_info, work);
-	pid_t pid;
 	enum umh_wait wait = sub_info->wait;
+	pid_t pid;
 
 	/* CLONE_VFORK: wait until the usermode helper has execve'd
 	 * successfully We need the data structures to stay around
 	 * until that is done.  */
-	if (wait == UMH_WAIT_PROC || wait == UMH_NO_WAIT)
+	if (wait == UMH_WAIT_PROC)
 		pid = kernel_thread(wait_for_helper, sub_info,
 				    CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
 	else
@@ -251,6 +248,7 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct
 
 	switch (wait) {
 	case UMH_NO_WAIT:
+		call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
 		break;
 
 	case UMH_WAIT_PROC:

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