From b50fa7c8077c625919b1e0a75fc37b825f024518 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 13:32:05 +0200 Subject: reboot: disable usermodehelper to prevent fs access In case CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is not set to "", which it should be on every system, the kernel forks processes during shutdown, which try to access the rootfs, even when the binary does not exist. It causes exceptions and long delays in the disk driver, which gets read requests at the time it tries to shut down the disk. This patch disables all kernel-forked processes during reboot to allow a clean poweroff. Cc: Tejun Heo Tested-By: Anton Guda Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sys.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sys.c') diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index af468edf096..70c4c515942 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ void kernel_restart_prepare(char *cmd) { blocking_notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_RESTART, cmd); system_state = SYSTEM_RESTART; + usermodehelper_disable(); device_shutdown(); sysdev_shutdown(); syscore_shutdown(); @@ -344,6 +345,7 @@ static void kernel_shutdown_prepare(enum system_states state) blocking_notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, (state == SYSTEM_HALT)?SYS_HALT:SYS_POWER_OFF, NULL); system_state = state; + usermodehelper_disable(); device_shutdown(); } /** -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2