linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: cleanup/fix __orderly_poweroff() && argv

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:11:14 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	hongfeng <hongfeng@...vell.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: cleanup/fix __orderly_poweroff() &&
	argv_free()

__orderly_poweroff() does argv_free() if call_usermodehelper_fns()
returns -ENOMEM. As Lucas pointed out, this can be wrong if -ENOMEM
was not triggered by the failing call_usermodehelper_setup(), in this
case both __orderly_poweroff() and argv_cleanup() can do kfree().

Kill argv_cleanup() and change __orderly_poweroff() to call argv_free()
unconditionally like do_coredump() does. This info->cleanup() is not
needed (and wrong) since 6c0c0d4d "fix bug in orderly_poweroff() which
did the UMH_NO_WAIT => UMH_WAIT_EXEC change, we can rely on the fact
that CLONE_VFORK can't return until do_execve() succeeds/fails.

Reported-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

--- x/kernel/sys.c
+++ x/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2184,11 +2184,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getcpu, unsigned __user 

 char poweroff_cmd[POWEROFF_CMD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/poweroff";

-static void argv_cleanup(struct subprocess_info *info)
-{
-	argv_free(info->argv);
-}
-
 static int __orderly_poweroff(void)
 {
 	int argc;
@@ -2208,9 +2203,8 @@ static int __orderly_poweroff(void)
 	}

 	ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(argv[0], argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC,
-				      NULL, argv_cleanup, NULL);
-	if (ret == -ENOMEM)
-		argv_free(argv);
+				      NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	argv_free(argv);

 	return ret;
 }

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