call_usermodehelper(): increase reliability
Presently call_usermodehelper_setup() uses GFP_ATOMIC. but it can return
NULL _very_ easily.
GFP_ATOMIC is needed only when we can't sleep. and, GFP_KERNEL is robust
and better.
thus, I add gfp_mask argument to call_usermodehelper_setup().
So, its callers pass the gfp_t as below:
call_usermodehelper() and call_usermodehelper_keys():
depend on 'wait' argument.
call_usermodehelper_pipe():
always GFP_KERNEL because always run under process context.
orderly_poweroff():
pass to GFP_ATOMIC because may run under interrupt context.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 2989f67..2456d1a 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -352,16 +352,17 @@
* @path: path to usermode executable
* @argv: arg vector for process
* @envp: environment for process
+ * @gfp_mask: gfp mask for memory allocation
*
* Returns either %NULL on allocation failure, or a subprocess_info
* structure. This should be passed to call_usermodehelper_exec to
* exec the process and free the structure.
*/
-struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path,
- char **argv, char **envp)
+struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
+ char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
- sub_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct subprocess_info), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ sub_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct subprocess_info), gfp_mask);
if (!sub_info)
goto out;
@@ -494,7 +495,7 @@
struct subprocess_info *sub_info;
int ret;
- sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp);
+ sub_info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, GFP_KERNEL);
if (sub_info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;