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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kmod.c | 37 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index ff2c7cb86d7..6f99aead66c 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ extern int max_threads; static struct workqueue_struct *khelper_wq; +/* + * kmod_thread_locker is used for deadlock avoidance. There is no explicit + * locking to protect this global - it is private to the singleton khelper + * thread and should only ever be modified by that thread. + */ +static const struct task_struct *kmod_thread_locker; + #define CAP_BSET (void *)1 #define CAP_PI (void *)2 @@ -221,6 +228,13 @@ fail: return 0; } +static int call_helper(void *data) +{ + /* Worker thread started blocking khelper thread. */ + kmod_thread_locker = current; + return ____call_usermodehelper(data); +} + static void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info) { if (info->cleanup) @@ -295,9 +309,12 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct work_struct *work) if (wait == UMH_WAIT_PROC) pid = kernel_thread(wait_for_helper, sub_info, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD); - else - pid = kernel_thread(____call_usermodehelper, sub_info, + else { + pid = kernel_thread(call_helper, sub_info, CLONE_VFORK | SIGCHLD); + /* Worker thread stopped blocking khelper thread. */ + kmod_thread_locker = NULL; + } switch (wait) { case UMH_NO_WAIT: @@ -548,6 +565,16 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait) retval = -EBUSY; goto out; } + /* + * Worker thread must not wait for khelper thread at below + * wait_for_completion() if the thread was created with CLONE_VFORK + * flag, for khelper thread is already waiting for the thread at + * wait_for_completion() in do_fork(). + */ + if (wait != UMH_NO_WAIT && current == kmod_thread_locker) { + retval = -EBUSY; + goto out; + } sub_info->complete = &done; sub_info->wait = wait; @@ -577,6 +604,12 @@ unlock: return retval; } +/* + * call_usermodehelper_fns() will not run the caller-provided cleanup function + * if a memory allocation failure is experienced. So the caller might need to + * check the call_usermodehelper_fns() return value: if it is -ENOMEM, perform + * the necessaary cleanup within the caller. + */ int call_usermodehelper_fns( char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait, int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new), |