firmware: Make user-mode helper optional

This patch adds a new kconfig, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, and
guards the user-helper codes in firmware_class.c with ifdefs.

Yeah, yeah, there are lots of ifdefs in this patch.  The further
clean-up with code shuffling follows in the next.

Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 55 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index c8b453939da2..07abd9d76f7f 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -145,6 +145,17 @@ config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
           this option you can point it elsewhere, such as /lib/firmware/ or
           some other directory containing the firmware files.
 
+config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
+        bool "Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading"
+        depends on FW_LOADER
+        default y
+        help
+          This option enables / disables the invocation of user-helper
+          (e.g. udev) for loading firmware files as a fallback after the
+          direct file loading in kernel fails.  The user-mode helper is
+          no longer required unless you have a special firmware file that
+          resides in a non-standard path.
+
 config DEBUG_DRIVER
         bool "Driver Core verbose debug messages"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 40ec60affd8f..84b1c8d0ea56 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -88,10 +88,12 @@ enum {
         FW_STATUS_ABORT,
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
 enum fw_buf_fmt {
         VMALLOC_BUF,    /* used in direct loading */
         PAGE_BUF,       /* used in loading via userspace */
 };
+#endif /* CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER */
 
 static int loading_timeout = 60;        /* In seconds */
 
@@ -128,12 +130,14 @@ struct firmware_buf {
         struct completion completion;
         struct firmware_cache *fwc;
         unsigned long status;
-        enum fw_buf_fmt fmt;
         void *data;
         size_t size;
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
+        enum fw_buf_fmt fmt;
         struct page **pages;
         int nr_pages;
         int page_array_size;
+#endif
         char fw_id[];
 };
 
@@ -142,6 +146,7 @@ struct fw_cache_entry {
         char name[];
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
 struct firmware_priv {
         struct delayed_work timeout_work;
         bool nowait;
@@ -149,6 +154,7 @@ struct firmware_priv {
         struct firmware_buf *buf;
         struct firmware *fw;
 };
+#endif
 
 struct fw_name_devm {
         unsigned long magic;
@@ -182,7 +188,9 @@ static struct firmware_buf *__allocate_fw_buf(const char *fw_name,
         strcpy(buf->fw_id, fw_name);
         buf->fwc = fwc;
         init_completion(&buf->completion);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
         buf->fmt = VMALLOC_BUF;
+#endif
 
         pr_debug("%s: fw-%s buf=%p\n", __func__, fw_name, buf);
 
@@ -240,7 +248,6 @@ static void __fw_free_buf(struct kref *ref)
 {
         struct firmware_buf *buf = to_fwbuf(ref);
         struct firmware_cache *fwc = buf->fwc;
-        int i;
 
         pr_debug("%s: fw-%s buf=%p data=%p size=%u\n",
                  __func__, buf->fw_id, buf, buf->data,
@@ -250,12 +257,15 @@ static void __fw_free_buf(struct kref *ref)
         spin_unlock(&fwc->lock);
 
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
         if (buf->fmt == PAGE_BUF) {
+                int i;
                 vunmap(buf->data);
                 for (i = 0; i < buf->nr_pages; i++)
                         __free_page(buf->pages[i]);
                 kfree(buf->pages);
         } else
+#endif
                 vfree(buf->data);
         kfree(buf);
 }
@@ -357,6 +367,19 @@ static bool fw_get_filesystem_firmware(struct device *device,
         return success;
 }
 
+/* firmware holds the ownership of pages */
+static void firmware_free_data(const struct firmware *fw)
+{
+        /* Loaded directly? */
+        if (!fw->priv) {
+                vfree(fw->data);
+                return;
+        }
+        fw_free_buf(fw->priv);
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
+
 static struct firmware_priv *to_firmware_priv(struct device *dev)
 {
         return container_of(dev, struct firmware_priv, dev);
@@ -446,17 +469,6 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_show(struct device *dev,
         return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", loading);
 }
 
-/* firmware holds the ownership of pages */
-static void firmware_free_data(const struct firmware *fw)
-{
-        /* Loaded directly? */
-        if (!fw->priv) {
-                vfree(fw->data);
-                return;
-        }
-        fw_free_buf(fw->priv);
-}
-
 /* Some architectures don't have PAGE_KERNEL_RO */
 #ifndef PAGE_KERNEL_RO
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_RO PAGE_KERNEL
@@ -737,12 +749,15 @@ fw_create_instance(struct firmware *firmware, const char *fw_name,
 exit:
         return fw_priv;
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER */
 
 /* store the pages buffer info firmware from buf */
 static void fw_set_page_data(struct firmware_buf *buf, struct firmware *fw)
 {
         fw->priv = buf;
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
         fw->pages = buf->pages;
+#endif
         fw->size = buf->size;
         fw->data = buf->data;
 
@@ -906,6 +921,7 @@ static int assign_firmware_buf(struct firmware *fw, struct device *device)
         return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
 /* load a firmware via user helper */
 static int _request_firmware_load(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv, bool uevent,
                                   long timeout)
@@ -978,6 +994,15 @@ static int fw_load_from_user_helper(struct firmware *firmware,
         fw_priv->buf = firmware->priv;
         return _request_firmware_load(fw_priv, uevent, timeout);
 }
+#else /* CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER */
+static inline int
+fw_load_from_user_helper(struct firmware *firmware, const char *name,
+                         struct device *device, bool uevent, bool nowait,
+                         long timeout)
+{
+        return -ENOENT;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER */
 
 /* called from request_firmware() and request_firmware_work_func() */
 static int
@@ -1495,7 +1520,11 @@ static void __init fw_cache_init(void)
 static int __init firmware_class_init(void)
 {
         fw_cache_init();
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
         return class_register(&firmware_class);
+#else
+        return 0;
+#endif
 }
 
 static void __exit firmware_class_exit(void)
@@ -1504,7 +1533,9 @@ static void __exit firmware_class_exit(void)
         unregister_syscore_ops(&fw_syscore_ops);
         unregister_pm_notifier(&fw_cache.pm_notify);
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
         class_unregister(&firmware_class);
+#endif
 }
 
 fs_initcall(firmware_class_init);