A new member in the ever growing family of call_usermode* functions is
born. The new call_usermodehelper_pipe() function allows to pipe data to
the stdin of the called user mode progam and behaves otherwise like the
normal call_usermodehelp() (except that it always waits for the child to
finish)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If ____call_usermodehelper fails, we're not interested in the child
process' exit value, but the real error, so let's stop wait_for_helper from
overwriting it in that case.
Issue discovered by Benedikt Böhm while working on a Linux-VServer usermode
helper.
Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I think there is a bug in kmod.c: In __call_usermodehelper(), when
kernel_thread(wait_for_helper, ...) return success, since wait_for_helper()
might call complete() at any time, the sub_info should not be used any
more.
Normally wait_for_helper() take a long time to finish, you may not get
problem for most of the case. But if you remove /sbin/modprobe, it may
become easier for you to get a oop in khelper.
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
lockdep needs to have the waitqueue lock initialized for on-stack waitqueues
implicitly initialized by DECLARE_COMPLETION(). Annotate on-stack completions
accordingly.
Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The attached patch gets rid of a "statement without effect" warning when
CONFIG_KEYS is disabled by making use of the return value of key_get().
The compiler will optimise all of this away when keys are disabled.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The attached patch makes it possible to pass a session keyring through to the
process spawned by call_usermodehelper(). This allows patch 3/3 to pass an
authorisation key through to /sbin/request-key, thus permitting better access
controls when doing just-in-time key creation.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Andi Kleen