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call_usermodehelper: simplify/fix UMH_NO_WAIT case

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__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>
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Oleg Nesterov 2010-05-26 14:43:04 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7d64224217
commit d47419cd96
1 changed files with 4 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -205,10 +205,7 @@ static int wait_for_helper(void *data)
sub_info->retval = ret;
}
if (sub_info->wait == UMH_NO_WAIT)
call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
else
complete(sub_info->complete);
complete(sub_info->complete);
return 0;
}
@ -217,13 +214,13 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct subprocess_info *sub_info =
container_of(work, struct subprocess_info, work);
pid_t pid;
enum umh_wait wait = sub_info->wait;
pid_t pid;
/* CLONE_VFORK: wait until the usermode helper has execve'd
* successfully We need the data structures to stay around
* until that is done. */
if (wait == UMH_WAIT_PROC || wait == UMH_NO_WAIT)
if (wait == UMH_WAIT_PROC)
pid = kernel_thread(wait_for_helper, sub_info,
CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
else
@ -232,6 +229,7 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct work_struct *work)
switch (wait) {
case UMH_NO_WAIT:
call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
break;
case UMH_WAIT_PROC: