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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
	hongfeng <hongfeng@marvell.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: cleanup/fix __orderly_poweroff() && argv_free()
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:11:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130225171114.GC1024@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130225171014.GB1024@redhat.com>

__orderly_poweroff() does argv_free() if call_usermodehelper_fns()
returns -ENOMEM. As Lucas pointed out, this can be wrong if -ENOMEM
was not triggered by the failing call_usermodehelper_setup(), in this
case both __orderly_poweroff() and argv_cleanup() can do kfree().

Kill argv_cleanup() and change __orderly_poweroff() to call argv_free()
unconditionally like do_coredump() does. This info->cleanup() is not
needed (and wrong) since 6c0c0d4d "fix bug in orderly_poweroff() which
did the UMH_NO_WAIT => UMH_WAIT_EXEC change, we can rely on the fact
that CLONE_VFORK can't return until do_execve() succeeds/fails.

Reported-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

--- x/kernel/sys.c
+++ x/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2184,11 +2184,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getcpu, unsigned __user 
 
 char poweroff_cmd[POWEROFF_CMD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/poweroff";
 
-static void argv_cleanup(struct subprocess_info *info)
-{
-	argv_free(info->argv);
-}
-
 static int __orderly_poweroff(void)
 {
 	int argc;
@@ -2208,9 +2203,8 @@ static int __orderly_poweroff(void)
 	}
 
 	ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(argv[0], argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC,
-				      NULL, argv_cleanup, NULL);
-	if (ret == -ENOMEM)
-		argv_free(argv);
+				      NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	argv_free(argv);
 
 	return ret;
 }


      reply	other threads:[~2013-02-25 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-25 14:25 [PATCH] usermodehelper: Fix -ENOMEM return logic Lucas De Marchi
2013-02-25 15:05 ` David Howells
2013-02-25 16:51   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-25 16:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-25 17:38   ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-02-25 18:08     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-03-07  2:05       ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-03-07 19:37         ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-03-07 19:47           ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-03-07 20:07             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-03-07 21:35               ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-02-25 17:10 ` [PATCH 0/1] usermodehelper: cleanup/fix __orderly_poweroff() && argv_free() Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-25 17:11   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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