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* usermodehelper: kill the kmod_thread_locker logicOleg Nesterov2014-12-111-30/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we do not call kernel_thread(CLONE_VFORK) from the worker thread we can not deadlock if do_execve() in turn triggers another call_usermodehelper(), we can remove the kmod_thread_locker code. Note: we should probably kill khelper_wq and simply use one of the global workqueues, say, system_unbound_wq, this special wq for umh buys nothing nowadays. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* usermodehelper: don't use CLONE_VFORK for ____call_usermodehelper()Oleg Nesterov2014-12-111-9/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After "kernel/kmod: fix use-after-free of the sub_infostructure" CLONE_VFORK in __call_usermodehelper() buys nothing, we rely on on umh_complete() in ____call_usermodehelper() anyway. Remove it. This also eliminates the unnecessary sleep/wakeup in the likely case, and this allows the next change. While at it, kill the "int wait" locals in ____call_usermodehelper() and __call_usermodehelper(), they can safely use sub_info->wait. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/kmod: fix use-after-free of the sub_info structureMartin Schwidefsky2014-10-301-39/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Found this in the message log on a s390 system: BUG kmalloc-192 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint INFO: 0x00000000684761f4-0x00000000684761f7. First byte 0xff instead of 0x6b INFO: Allocated in call_usermodehelper_setup+0x70/0x128 age=71 cpu=2 pid=648 __slab_alloc.isra.47.constprop.56+0x5f6/0x658 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x106/0x408 call_usermodehelper_setup+0x70/0x128 call_usermodehelper+0x62/0x90 cgroup_release_agent+0x178/0x1c0 process_one_work+0x36e/0x680 worker_thread+0x2f0/0x4f8 kthread+0x10a/0x120 kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc INFO: Freed in call_usermodehelper_exec+0x110/0x1b8 age=71 cpu=2 pid=648 __slab_free+0x94/0x560 kfree+0x364/0x3e0 call_usermodehelper_exec+0x110/0x1b8 cgroup_release_agent+0x178/0x1c0 process_one_work+0x36e/0x680 worker_thread+0x2f0/0x4f8 kthread+0x10a/0x120 kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc There is a use-after-free bug on the subprocess_info structure allocated by the user mode helper. In case do_execve() returns with an error ____call_usermodehelper() stores the error code to sub_info->retval, but sub_info can already have been freed. Regarding UMH_NO_WAIT, the sub_info structure can be freed by __call_usermodehelper() before the worker thread returns from do_execve(), allowing memory corruption when do_execve() failed after exec_mmap() is called. Regarding UMH_WAIT_EXEC, the call to umh_complete() allows call_usermodehelper_exec() to continue which then frees sub_info. To fix this race the code needs to make sure that the call to call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() is always done after the last store to sub_info->retval. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signals: change wait_for_helper() to use kernel_sigaction()Oleg Nesterov2014-06-071-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we have kernel_sigaction() we can change wait_for_helper() to use it and cleans up the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()Peter Zijlstra2014-04-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passingLinus Torvalds2014-02-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This changes 'do_execve()' to get the executable name as a 'struct filename', and to free it when it is done. This is what the normal users want, and it simplifies and streamlines their error handling. The controlled lifetime of the executable name also fixes a use-after-free problem with the trace_sched_process_exec tracepoint: the lifetime of the passed-in string for kernel users was not at all obvious, and the user-mode helper code used UMH_WAIT_EXEC to serialize the pathname allocation lifetime with the execve() having finished, which in turn meant that the trace point that happened after mm_release() of the old process VM ended up using already free'd memory. To solve the kernel string lifetime issue, this simply introduces "getname_kernel()" that works like the normal user-space getname() function, except with the source coming from kernel memory. As Oleg points out, this also means that we could drop the tcomm[] array from 'struct linux_binprm', since the pathname lifetime now covers setup_new_exec(). That would be a separate cleanup. Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@samsung.com> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/kmod.c: check for NULL in call_usermodehelper_exec()Tetsuo Handa2013-09-301-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains only "|", a NULL pointer dereference happens upon core dump because argv_split("") returns argv[0] == NULL. This bug was once fixed by commit 264b83c07a84 ("usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL") but was by error reintroduced by commit 7f57cfa4e2aa ("usermodehelper: kill the sub_info->path[0] check"). This bug seems to exist since 2.6.19 (the version which core dump to pipe was added). Depending on kernel version and config, some side effect might happen immediately after this oops (e.g. kernel panic with 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* usermodehelper: kill the sub_info->path[0] checkOleg Nesterov2013-07-041-8/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | call_usermodehelper_exec() does nothing but returns success if path[0] == 0. The only user which needs this strange feature is request_module(), it can check modprobe_path[0] itself like other users do if they want to detect the "disabled by admin" case. Kill it. Not only it looks strange, it can confuse other callers. And this allows us to revert 264b83c0 ("usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL"), do_execve(NULL) is safe. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULLOleg Nesterov2013-05-161-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | argv_split(empty_or_all_spaces) happily succeeds, it simply returns argc == 0 and argv[0] == NULL. Change call_usermodehelper_exec() to check sub_info->path != NULL to avoid the crash. This is the minimal fix, todo: - perhaps we should change argv_split() to return NULL or change the callers. - kill or justify ->path[0] check - narrow the scope of helper_lock() Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-By: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmod: remove call_usermodehelper_fns()Lucas De Marchi2013-05-011-14/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function suffers from not being able to determine if the cleanup is called in case it returns -ENOMEM. Nobody is using it anymore, so let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmod: split call to call_usermodehelper_fns()Lucas De Marchi2013-05-011-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() instead of calling call_usermodehelper_fns(). In case the latter returns -ENOMEM the cleanup function may had not been called - in this case we would not free argv and module_name. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* usermodehelper: export call_usermodehelper_exec() and ↵Lucas De Marchi2013-05-011-33/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | call_usermodehelper_setup() call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() need to be called instead of call_usermodehelper_fns() when the cleanup function needs to be called even when an ENOMEM error occurs. In this case using call_usermodehelper_fns() the user can't distinguish if the cleanup function was called or not. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export call_usermodehelper_setup() to modules] Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'master' into for-3.9-asyncTejun Heo2013-01-231-3/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | To receive f56c3196f251012de9b3ebaff55732a9074fdaae ("async: fix __lowest_in_progress()"). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
| * Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve seriesAl Viro2012-12-201-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All architectures have CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE __ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left. Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workersTejun Heo2013-01-231-0/+9
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Synchronous requet_module() from an async worker can lead to deadlock because module init path may invoke async_synchronize_full(). The async worker waits for request_module() to complete and the module loading waits for the async task to finish. This bug happened in the block layer because of default elevator auto-loading. Block layer has been updated not to do default elevator auto-loading and it has been decided to disallow synchronous request_module() from async workers. Trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() on synchronous request_module() from async workers. For more details, please refer to the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
* infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semanticsAl Viro2012-10-121-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * allow kernel_execve() leave the actual return to userland to caller (selected by CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE). Callers updated accordingly. * architecture that does select GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE in its Kconfig should have its ret_from_kernel_thread() do this: call schedule_tail call the callback left for it by copy_thread(); if it ever returns, that's because it has just done successful kernel_execve() jump to return from syscall IOW, its only difference from ret_from_fork() is that it does call the callback. * such an architecture should also get rid of ret_from_kernel_execve() and __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE This is the last part of infrastructure patches in that area - from that point on work on different architectures can live independently. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselvesAl Viro2012-10-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most of them never returned anyway - only two functions had to be changed. That allows to simplify their callers a whole lot. Note that this does *not* apply to kthread_run() callbacks - all of those had been called from the same kernel_thread() callback, which did do_exit() already. This is strictly about very few low-level kernel_thread() callbacks (there are only 6 of those, mostly as part of kthread.h and kmod.h exported mechanisms, plus kernel_init() itself). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* kmod: avoid deadlock from recursive kmod callTetsuo Handa2012-07-311-2/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The system deadlocks (at least since 2.6.10) when call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_EXEC) request triggers call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_PROC) request. This is because "khelper thread is waiting for the worker thread at wait_for_completion() in do_fork() since the worker thread was created with CLONE_VFORK flag" and "the worker thread cannot call complete() because do_execve() is blocked at UMH_WAIT_PROC request" and "the khelper thread cannot start processing UMH_WAIT_PROC request because the khelper thread is waiting for the worker thread at wait_for_completion() in do_fork()". The easiest example to observe this deadlock is to use a corrupted /sbin/hotplug binary (like shown below). # : > /tmp/dummy # chmod 755 /tmp/dummy # echo /tmp/dummy > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug # modprobe whatever call_usermodehelper("/tmp/dummy", UMH_WAIT_EXEC) is called from kobject_uevent_env() in lib/kobject_uevent.c upon loading/unloading a module. do_execve("/tmp/dummy") triggers a call to request_module("binfmt-0000") from search_binary_handler() which in turn calls call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_PROC). In order to avoid deadlock, as a for-now and easy-to-backport solution, do not try to call wait_for_completion() in call_usermodehelper_exec() if the worker thread was created by khelper thread with CLONE_VFORK flag. Future and fundamental solution might be replacing singleton khelper thread with some workqueue so that recursive calls up to max_active dependency loop can be handled without deadlock. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment to kmod_thread_locker] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/kmod.c: document call_usermodehelper_fns() a bitAndrew Morton2012-07-311-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function's interface is, uh, subtle. Attempt to apologise for it. Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmod.c: fix kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap2012-06-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Warning(kernel/kmod.c:419): No description found for parameter 'depth' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmod: move call_usermodehelper_fns() to .c file and unexport all it's helpersBoaz Harrosh2012-06-011-3/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we move call_usermodehelper_fns() to kmod.c file and EXPORT_SYMBOL it we can avoid exporting all it's helper functions: call_usermodehelper_setup call_usermodehelper_setfns call_usermodehelper_exec And make all of them static to kmod.c Since the optimizer will see all these as a single call site it will inline them inside call_usermodehelper_fns(). So we loose the call to _fns but gain 3 calls to the helpers. (Not that it matters) Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmod: unexport call_usermodehelper_freeinfo()Boaz Harrosh2012-06-011-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() is not used outside of kmod.c. So unexport it, and make it static to kmod.c Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer and request_firmware()Rafael J. Wysocki2012-03-281-10/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a race condition between the freezer and request_firmware() such that if request_firmware() is run on one CPU and freeze_processes() is run on another CPU and usermodehelper_disable() called by it succeeds to grab umhelper_sem for writing before usermodehelper_read_trylock() called from request_firmware() acquires it for reading, the request_firmware() will fail and trigger a WARN_ON() complaining that it was called at a wrong time. However, in fact, it wasn't called at a wrong time and freeze_processes() simply happened to be executed simultaneously. To avoid this race, at least in some cases, modify usermodehelper_read_trylock() so that it doesn't fail if the freezing of tasks has just started and hasn't been completed yet. Instead, during the freezing of tasks, it will try to freeze the task that has called it so that it can wait until user space is thawed without triggering the scary warning. For this purpose, change usermodehelper_disabled so that it can take three different values, UMH_ENABLED (0), UMH_FREEZING and UMH_DISABLED. The first one means that usermode helpers are enabled, the last one means "hard disable" (i.e. the system is not ready for usermode helpers to be used) and the second one is reserved for the freezer. Namely, when freeze_processes() is started, it sets usermodehelper_disabled to UMH_FREEZING which tells usermodehelper_read_trylock() that it shouldn't fail just yet and should call try_to_freeze() if woken up and cannot return immediately. This way all freezable tasks that happen to call request_firmware() right before freeze_processes() is started and lose the race for umhelper_sem with it will be frozen and will sleep until thaw_processes() unsets usermodehelper_disabled. [For the non-freezable callers of request_firmware() the race for umhelper_sem against freeze_processes() is unfortunately unavoidable.] Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
* firmware_class: Do not warn that system is not ready from async loadsRafael J. Wysocki2012-03-281-13/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* firmware_class: Rework usermodehelper checkRafael J. Wysocki2012-03-281-13/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of two functions, read_lock_usermodehelper() and usermodehelper_is_disabled(), used in combination, introduce usermodehelper_read_trylock() that will only return with umhelper_sem held if usermodehelper_disabled is unset (and will return -EAGAIN otherwise) and make _request_firmware() use it. Rename read_unlock_usermodehelper() to usermodehelper_read_unlock() to follow the naming convention of the new function. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
* kmod: make __request_module() killableOleg Nesterov2012-03-241-2/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As Tetsuo Handa pointed out, request_module() can stress the system while the oom-killed caller sleeps in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. The task T uses "almost all" memory, then it does something which triggers request_module(). Say, it can simply call sys_socket(). This in turn needs more memory and leads to OOM. oom-killer correctly chooses T and kills it, but this can't help because it sleeps in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and after that oom-killer becomes "disabled" by the TIF_MEMDIE task T. Make __request_module() killable. The only necessary change is that call_modprobe() should kmalloc argv and module_name, they can't live in the stack if we use UMH_KILLABLE. This memory is freed via call_usermodehelper_freeinfo()->cleanup. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helperOleg Nesterov2012-03-241-8/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | No functional changes. Move the call_usermodehelper code from __request_module() into the new simple helper, call_modprobe(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* usermodehelper: ____call_usermodehelper() doesn't need do_exit()Oleg Nesterov2012-03-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor cleanup. ____call_usermodehelper() can simply return, no need to call do_exit() explicitely. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* usermodehelper: kill umh_wait, renumber UMH_* constantsOleg Nesterov2012-03-241-6/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | No functional changes. It is not sane to use UMH_KILLABLE with enum umh_wait, but obviously we do not want another argument in call_usermodehelper_* helpers. Kill this enum, use the plain int. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLEOleg Nesterov2012-03-241-2/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement UMH_KILLABLE, should be used along with UMH_WAIT_EXEC/PROC. The caller must ensure that subprocess_info->path/etc can not go away until call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). call_usermodehelper_exec(UMH_KILLABLE) does wait_for_completion_killable. If it fails, it uses xchg(&sub_info->complete, NULL) to serialize with umh_complete() which does the same xhcg() to access sub_info->complete. If call_usermodehelper_exec wins, it can safely return. umh_complete() should get NULL and call call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). Otherwise we know that umh_complete() was already called, in this case call_usermodehelper_exec() falls back to wait_for_completion() which should succeed "very soon". Note: UMH_NO_WAIT == -1 but it obviously should not be used with UMH_KILLABLE. We delay the neccessary cleanup to simplify the back porting. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* usermodehelper: introduce umh_complete(sub_info)Oleg Nesterov2012-03-241-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Preparation. Add the new trivial helper, umh_complete(). Currently it simply does complete(sub_info->complete). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'pm-sleep' into pm-for-linusRafael J. Wysocki2011-12-251-1/+24
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * pm-sleep: (51 commits) PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled() PM / Sleep: Recommend [un]lock_system_sleep() over using pm_mutex directly PM / Sleep: Replace mutex_[un]lock(&pm_mutex) with [un]lock_system_sleep() PM / Sleep: Make [un]lock_system_sleep() generic PM / Sleep: Use the freezer_count() functions in [un]lock_system_sleep() APIs PM / Freezer: Remove the "userspace only" constraint from freezer[_do_not]_count() PM / Hibernate: Replace unintuitive 'if' condition in kernel/power/user.c with 'else' Freezer / sunrpc / NFS: don't allow TASK_KILLABLE sleeps to block the freezer PM / Sleep: Unify diagnostic messages from device suspend/resume ACPI / PM: Do not save/restore NVS on Asus K54C/K54HR PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation test modes PM / Hibernate: Thaw processes in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl test path ... Conflicts: kernel/kmod.c
| * PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()Srivatsa S. Bhat2011-12-091-1/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a144c6a (PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozen) introduced usermodehelper_is_disabled() to warn and exit immediately if firmware is requested when usermodehelpers are disabled. However, it is racy. Consider the following scenario, currently used in drivers/base/firmware_class.c: ... if (usermodehelper_is_disabled()) goto out; /* Do actual work */ ... out: return err; Nothing prevents someone from disabling usermodehelpers just after the check in the 'if' condition, which means that it is quite possible to try doing the "actual work" with usermodehelpers disabled, leading to undesirable consequences. In particular, this race condition in _request_firmware() causes task freezing failures whenever suspend/hibernation is in progress because, it wrongly waits to get the firmware/microcode image from userspace when actually the usermodehelpers are disabled or userspace has been frozen. Some of the example scenarios that cause freezing failures due to this race are those that depend on userspace via request_firmware(), such as x86 microcode module initialization and microcode image reload. Previous discussions about this issue can be found at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1198291/focus=1200591 This patch adds proper synchronization to fix this issue. It is to be noted that this patchset fixes the freezing failures but doesn't remove the warnings. IOW, it does not attempt to add explicit synchronization to x86 microcode driver to avoid requesting microcode image at inopportune moments. Because, the warnings were introduced to highlight such cases, in the first place. And we need not silence the warnings, since we take care of the *real* problem (freezing failure) and hence, after that, the warnings are pretty harmless anyway. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* | PM / Usermodehelper: Cleanup remnants of usermodehelper_pm_callback()Srivatsa S. Bhat2011-11-231-4/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | usermodehelper_pm_callback() no longer exists in the kernel. There are 2 comments in kernel/kmod.c that still refer to it. Also, the patch that introduced usermodehelper_pm_callback(), #included two header files: <linux/notifier.h> and <linux/suspend.h>. But these are no longer necessary. This patch updates the comments as appropriate and removes the unnecessary header file inclusions. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* kmod: prevent kmod_loop_msg overflow in __request_module()Jiri Kosina2011-10-261-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to post-increment in condition of kmod_loop_msg in __request_module(), the system log can be spammed by much more than 5 instances of the 'runaway loop' message if the number of events triggering it makes the kmod_loop_msg to overflow. Fix that by making sure we never increment it past the threshold. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> CC: stable@kernel.org
* Boot up with usermodehelper disabledLinus Torvalds2011-08-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode helper binary for all these events very early in the boot. Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in executing. So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers to make the kernel start out with them disabled. We enable them when we've at least initialized stuff a bit. Problems related to an uninitialized init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex reported by various people. Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com> Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* KEYS/DNS: Fix ____call_usermodehelper() to not lose the session keyringDavid Howells2011-06-171-7/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ____call_usermodehelper() now erases any credentials set by the subprocess_inf::init() function. The problem is that commit 17f60a7da150 ("capabilites: allow the application of capability limits to usermode helpers") creates and commits new credentials with prepare_kernel_cred() after the call to the init() function. This wipes all keyrings after umh_keys_init() is called. The best way to deal with this is to put the init() call just prior to the commit_creds() call, and pass the cred pointer to init(). That means that umh_keys_init() and suchlike can modify the credentials _before_ they are published and potentially in use by the rest of the system. This prevents request_key() from working as it is prevented from passing the session keyring it set up with the authorisation token to /sbin/request-key, and so the latter can't assume the authority to instantiate the key. This causes the in-kernel DNS resolver to fail with ENOKEY unconditionally. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris2011-05-241-0/+100
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| * capabilites: allow the application of capability limits to usermode helpersEric Paris2011-04-041-0/+100
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no way to limit the capabilities of usermodehelpers. This problem reared its head recently when someone complained that any user with cap_net_admin was able to load arbitrary kernel modules, even though the user didn't have cap_sys_module. The reason is because the actual load is done by a usermode helper and those always have the full cap set. This patch addes new sysctls which allow us to bound the permissions of usermode helpers. /proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/bset /proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/inheritable You must have CAP_SYS_MODULE and CAP_SETPCAP to change these (changes are &= ONLY). When the kernel launches a usermodehelper it will do so with these as the bset and pI. -v2: make globals static create spinlock to protect globals -v3: require both CAP_SETPCAP and CAP_SYS_MODULE -v4: fix the typo s/CAP_SET_PCAP/CAP_SETPCAP/ because I didn't commit Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> No-objection-from: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | kmod: always provide usermodehelper_disable()Kay Sievers2011-05-171-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to prevent kernel-forked processes during system poweroff. Such processes try to access the filesystem whose disks we are trying to shutdown at the same time. This causes delays and exceptions in the storage drivers. A follow-up patch will add these calls and need usermodehelper_disable() also on systems without suspend support. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* | PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozenRafael J. Wysocki2011-05-171-0/+9
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Make do_execve() take a const filename pointerDavid Howells2010-08-181-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles correctly on ARM: arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel(). do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as const should be fine. Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match. This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* call_usermodehelper: UMH_WAIT_EXEC ignores kernel_thread() failureOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | UMH_WAIT_EXEC should report the error if kernel_thread() fails, like UMH_WAIT_PROC does. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* call_usermodehelper: simplify/fix UMH_NO_WAIT caseOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-6/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) has 2 problems: - if kernel_thread() fails, call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() is not called. - for unknown reason UMH_NO_WAIT has UMH_WAIT_PROC logic, we spawn yet another thread which waits until the user mode application exits. Change the UMH_NO_WAIT code to use ____call_usermodehelper() instead of wait_for_helper(), and do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() unconditionally. We can rely on CLONE_VFORK, do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) until the child exits or execs. With or without this patch UMH_NO_WAIT does not report the error if kernel_thread() fails, this is correct since the caller doesn't wait for result. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* wait_for_helper: SIGCHLD from user-space can lead to use-after-freeOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. wait_for_helper() calls allow_signal(SIGCHLD) to ensure the child can't autoreap itself. However, this means that a spurious SIGCHILD from user-space can set TIF_SIGPENDING and: - kernel_thread() or sys_wait4() can fail due to signal_pending() - worse, wait4() can fail before ____call_usermodehelper() execs or exits. In this case the caller may kfree(subprocess_info) while the child still uses this memory. Change the code to use SIG_DFL instead of magic "(void __user *)2" set by allow_signal(). This means that SIGCHLD won't be delivered, yet the child won't autoreap itsefl. The problem is minor, only root can send a signal to this kthread. 2. If sys_wait4(&ret) fails it doesn't populate "ret", in this case wait_for_helper() reports a random value from uninitialized var. With this patch sys_wait4() should never fail, but still it makes sense to initialize ret = -ECHILD so that the caller can notice the problem. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* call_usermodehelper: no need to unblock signalsOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | ____call_usermodehelper() correctly calls flush_signal_handlers() to set SIG_DFL, but sigemptyset(->blocked) and recalc_sigpending() are not needed. This kthread was forked by workqueue thread, all signals must be unblocked and ignored, no pending signal is possible. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* umh: creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logicOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-19/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this member and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the context of freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred copied from its parent kthread, keventd. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* umh: creds: convert call_usermodehelper_keys() to use subprocess_info->init()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-271-18/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | call_usermodehelper_keys() uses call_usermodehelper_setkeys() to change subprocess_info->cred in advance. Now that we have info->init() we can change this code to set tgcred->session_keyring in context of execing kernel thread. Note: since currently call_usermodehelper_keys() is never called with UMH_NO_WAIT, call_usermodehelper_keys()->key_get() and umh_keys_cleanup() are not really needed, we could rely on install_session_keyring_to_cred() which does key_get() on success. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exec: replace call_usermodehelper_pipe with use of umh init function and ↵Neil Horman2010-05-271-82/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | resolve limit The first patch in this series introduced an init function to the call_usermodehelper api so that processes could be customized by caller. This patch takes advantage of that fact, by customizing the helper in do_coredump to create the pipe and set its core limit to one (for our recusrsion check). This lets us clean up the previous uglyness in the usermodehelper internals and factor call_usermodehelper out entirely. While I'm at it, we can also modify the helper setup to look for a core limit value of 1 rather than zero for our recursion check Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmod: add init function to usermodehelperNeil Horman2010-05-271-22/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | About 6 months ago, I made a set of changes to how the core-dump-to-a-pipe feature in the kernel works. We had reports of several races, including some reports of apps bypassing our recursion check so that a process that was forked as part of a core_pattern setup could infinitely crash and refork until the system crashed. We fixed those by improving our recursion checks. The new check basically refuses to fork a process if its core limit is zero, which works well. Unfortunately, I've been getting grief from maintainer of user space programs that are inserted as the forked process of core_pattern. They contend that in order for their programs (such as abrt and apport) to work, all the running processes in a system must have their core limits set to a non-zero value, to which I say 'yes'. I did this by design, and think thats the right way to do things. But I've been asked to ease this burden on user space enough times that I thought I would take a look at it. The first suggestion was to make the recursion check fail on a non-zero 'special' number, like one. That way the core collector process could set its core size ulimit to 1, and enable the kernel's recursion detection. This isn't a bad idea on the surface, but I don't like it since its opt-in, in that if a program like abrt or apport has a bug and fails to set such a core limit, we're left with a recursively crashing system again. So I've come up with this. What I've done is modify the call_usermodehelper api such that an extra parameter is added, a function pointer which will be called by the user helper task, after it forks, but before it exec's the required process. This will give the caller the opportunity to get a call back in the processes context, allowing it to do whatever it needs to to the process in the kernel prior to exec-ing the user space code. In the case of do_coredump, this callback is ues to set the core ulimit of the helper process to 1. This elimnates the opt-in problem that I had above, as it allows the ulimit for core sizes to be set to the value of 1, which is what the recursion check looks for in do_coredump. This patch: Create new function call_usermodehelper_fns() and allow it to assign both an init and cleanup function, as we'll as arbitrary data. The init function is called from the context of the forked process and allows for customization of the helper process prior to calling exec. Its return code gates the continuation of the process, or causes its exit. Also add an arbitrary data pointer to the subprocess_info struct allowing for data to be passed from the caller to the new process, and the subsequent cleanup process Also, use this patch to cleanup the cleanup function. It currently takes an argp and envp pointer for freeing, which is ugly. Lets instead just make the subprocess_info structure public, and pass that to the cleanup and init routines Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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