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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2007-09-11 18:23:51 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-09-11 20:21:20 -0400
commit3210f0ecdba6a81c3f8efe6f442d2e1f57db98f9 (patch)
treee7f928376db3d0c72413760fe2232b9a50fa08b1 /kernel/kmod.c
parentf629307c857c030d5a3dd777fee37c8bb395e171 (diff)
Restore call_usermodehelper_pipe() behaviour
The semantics of call_usermodehelper_pipe() used to be that it would fork the helper, and wait for the kernel thread to be started. This was implemented by setting sub_info.wait to 0 (implicitly), and doing a wait_for_completion(). As part of the cleanup done in 0ab4dc92278a0f3816e486d6350c6652a72e06c8, call_usermodehelper_pipe() was changed to pass 1 as the value for wait to call_usermodehelper_exec(). This is equivalent to setting sub_info.wait to 1, which is a change from the previous behaviour. Using 1 instead of 0 causes __call_usermodehelper() to start the kernel thread running wait_for_helper(), rather than directly calling ____call_usermodehelper(). The end result is that the calling kernel code blocks until the user mode helper finishes. As the helper is expecting input on stdin, and now no one is writing anything, everything locks up (observed in do_coredump). The fix is to change the 1 to UMH_WAIT_EXEC (aka 0), indicating that we want to wait for the kernel thread to be started, but not for the helper to finish. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 9809cc1f33d6..c6a4f8aebeba 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ int call_usermodehelper_pipe(char *path, char **argv, char **envp,
505 if (ret < 0) 505 if (ret < 0)
506 goto out; 506 goto out;
507 507
508 return call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, 1); 508 return call_usermodehelper_exec(sub_info, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
509 509
510 out: 510 out:
511 call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info); 511 call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);