PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozen

Some drivers erroneously use request_firmware() from their ->resume()
(or ->thaw(), or ->restore()) callbacks, which is not going to work
unless the firmware has been built in.  This causes system resume to
stall until the firmware-loading timeout expires, which makes users
think that the resume has failed and reboot their machines
unnecessarily.  For this reason, make _request_firmware() print a
warning and return immediately with error code if it has been called
when tasks are frozen and it's impossible to start any new usermode
helpers.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 9cd0591c96a2..9ab513bd0c3c 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -301,6 +301,15 @@ void usermodehelper_enable(void)
         usermodehelper_disabled = 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * usermodehelper_is_disabled - check if new helpers are allowed to be started
+ */
+bool usermodehelper_is_disabled(void)
+{
+        return usermodehelper_disabled;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usermodehelper_is_disabled);
+
 static void helper_lock(void)
 {
         atomic_inc(&running_helpers);