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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reboot: disable usermodehelper to prevent fs access
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 13:27:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110505202758.GA12812@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304595126.1284.3.camel@zag>

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:32:05PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] 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.

Should this also be backported to the -stable kernels as people are
hitting this problem already today, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-05 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-05 11:32 [PATCH] reboot: disable usermodehelper to prevent fs access Kay Sievers
2011-05-05 20:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-05-06  1:15   ` Kay Sievers
2011-05-05 21:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-05 21:34   ` Greg KH
2011-05-06  0:04     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-06  1:07       ` Kay Sievers

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