From ac331d158e198d2a91a5b0a3ec4ca9991fdb57af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:45:38 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: "Paul Menage" Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sys.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sys.c') diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 14e97282eb6..6c218804604 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ int orderly_poweroff(bool force) goto out; } - info = call_usermodehelper_setup(argv[0], argv, envp); + info = call_usermodehelper_setup(argv[0], argv, envp, GFP_ATOMIC); if (info == NULL) { argv_free(argv); goto out; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2