linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroup1: don't call release

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Date:   Wed, 4 Mar 2020 11:54:05 -0500
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
Cc:     cgroups@...r.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup1: don't call release_agent when it is ""

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:01:29PM -0700, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> Older (and maybe current) versions of systemd set release_agent to "" when
> shutting down, but do not set notify_on_release to 0.
> 
> Since 64e90a8acb85 ("Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate
> call_usermodehelper()"), we filter out such calls when the user mode helper
> path is "". However, when used in conjunction with an actual (i.e. non "")
> STATIC_USERMODEHELPER, the path is never "", so the real usermode helper
> will be called with argv[0] == "".
> 
> Let's avoid this by not invoking the release_agent when it is "".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>

Applied to cgroup/for-5.6-fixes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun