firmware_class: Do not warn that system is not ready from async loads

If firmware is requested asynchronously, by calling
request_firmware_nowait(), there is no reason to fail the request
(and warn the user) when the system is (presumably temporarily)
unready to handle it (because user space is not available yet or
frozen).  For this reason, introduce an alternative routine for
read-locking umhelper_sem, usermodehelper_read_lock_wait(), that
will wait for usermodehelper_disabled to be unset (possibly with
a timeout) and make request_firmware_work_func() use it instead of
usermodehelper_read_trylock().

Accordingly, modify request_firmware() so that it uses
usermodehelper_read_trylock() to acquire umhelper_sem and remove
the code related to that lock from _request_firmware().

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 4079ac1d5e79..da7fcca279f9 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -334,6 +334,12 @@ static atomic_t running_helpers = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(running_helpers_waitq);
 
 /*
+ * Used by usermodehelper_read_lock_wait() to wait for usermodehelper_disabled
+ * to become 'false'.
+ */
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(usermodehelper_disabled_waitq);
+
+/*
  * Time to wait for running_helpers to become zero before the setting of
  * usermodehelper_disabled in usermodehelper_disable() fails
  */
@@ -352,6 +358,33 @@ int usermodehelper_read_trylock(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usermodehelper_read_trylock);
 
+long usermodehelper_read_lock_wait(long timeout)
+{
+        DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
+
+        if (timeout < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        down_read(&umhelper_sem);
+        for (;;) {
+                prepare_to_wait(&usermodehelper_disabled_waitq, &wait,
+                                TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+                if (!usermodehelper_disabled)
+                        break;
+
+                up_read(&umhelper_sem);
+
+                timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
+                if (!timeout)
+                        break;
+
+                down_read(&umhelper_sem);
+        }
+        finish_wait(&usermodehelper_disabled_waitq, &wait);
+        return timeout;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usermodehelper_read_lock_wait);
+
 void usermodehelper_read_unlock(void)
 {
         up_read(&umhelper_sem);
@@ -359,6 +392,17 @@ void usermodehelper_read_unlock(void)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usermodehelper_read_unlock);
 
 /**
+ * usermodehelper_enable - allow new helpers to be started again
+ */
+void usermodehelper_enable(void)
+{
+        down_write(&umhelper_sem);
+        usermodehelper_disabled = 0;
+        wake_up(&usermodehelper_disabled_waitq);
+        up_write(&umhelper_sem);
+}
+
+/**
  * usermodehelper_disable - prevent new helpers from being started
  */
 int usermodehelper_disable(void)
@@ -381,22 +425,10 @@ int usermodehelper_disable(void)
         if (retval)
                 return 0;
 
-        down_write(&umhelper_sem);
-        usermodehelper_disabled = 0;
-        up_write(&umhelper_sem);
+        usermodehelper_enable();
         return -EAGAIN;
 }
 
-/**
- * usermodehelper_enable - allow new helpers to be started again
- */
-void usermodehelper_enable(void)
-{
-        down_write(&umhelper_sem);
-        usermodehelper_disabled = 0;
-        up_write(&umhelper_sem);
-}
-
 static void helper_lock(void)
 {
         atomic_inc(&running_helpers);