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Message-ID: <20111027003916.GA3934@udknight.homenetwork>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:39:16 +0800
From: wangyanqing <udknight@...il.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init:enable usermodehelper as soon as we have a root
filesystem
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:09:57PM +0800, wangyanqing wrote:
> before we have a filesystem , it is useless to enable usermodehelper,
> and it may cause bug if we enable usermodehelper too early (see commit
> d5767c53535ac79758084773418e0ad186aba4a2 for the reason why linus mv
> 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end of do_basic_setup, and commit
> b0f84374b6ab0dc9c47975df0b02d46165d558d4).This patch
> enable usermodehelper as soon as we have a filesystem.
>
> Signed-off-by: wang yanqing <udknight@...il.com>
> ---
> init/do_mounts.c | 3 +++
> init/initramfs.c | 2 ++
> init/main.c | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
> index c0851a8..9575bdd 100644
> --- a/init/do_mounts.c
> +++ b/init/do_mounts.c
> @@ -490,4 +490,7 @@ out:
> devtmpfs_mount("dev");
> sys_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
> sys_chroot((const char __user __force *)".");
> +#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
> + usermodehelper_enable();
> +#endif
> }
> diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
> index 2531811..881fc4b 100644
> --- a/init/initramfs.c
> +++ b/init/initramfs.c
> @@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
> err = unpack_to_rootfs((char *)initrd_start,
> initrd_end - initrd_start);
> if (!err) {
> + usermodehelper_enable();
> free_initrd();
> return 0;
> } else {
> @@ -603,6 +604,7 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
> initrd_end - initrd_start);
> if (err)
> printk(KERN_EMERG "Initramfs unpacking failed: %s\n", err);
> + usermodehelper_enable();
> free_initrd();
> #endif
> }
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 03b408d..2e232cb 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -730,7 +730,6 @@ static void __init do_basic_setup(void)
> driver_init();
> init_irq_proc();
> do_ctors();
> - usermodehelper_enable();
> do_initcalls();
> }
>
> --
> 1.7.3.4
>
Hi,Linus.Sorry, but I just want to know whether this patch is wrong? And any suggestion is welcome, thanks!
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