10 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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Commit a144c6a (PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks
are frozen) introduced usermodehelper_is_disabled() to warn and exit
immediately if firmware is requested when usermodehelpers are disabled.However, it is racy. Consider the following scenario, currently used in
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:...
if (usermodehelper_is_disabled())
goto out;/* Do actual work */
...out:
return err;Nothing prevents someone from disabling usermodehelpers just after the check
in the 'if' condition, which means that it is quite possible to try doing the
"actual work" with usermodehelpers disabled, leading to undesirable
consequences.In particular, this race condition in _request_firmware() causes task freezing
failures whenever suspend/hibernation is in progress because, it wrongly waits
to get the firmware/microcode image from userspace when actually the
usermodehelpers are disabled or userspace has been frozen.
Some of the example scenarios that cause freezing failures due to this race
are those that depend on userspace via request_firmware(), such as x86
microcode module initialization and microcode image reload.Previous discussions about this issue can be found at:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1198291/focus=1200591This patch adds proper synchronization to fix this issue.
It is to be noted that this patchset fixes the freezing failures but doesn't
remove the warnings. IOW, it does not attempt to add explicit synchronization
to x86 microcode driver to avoid requesting microcode image at inopportune
moments. Because, the warnings were introduced to highlight such cases, in the
first place. And we need not silence the warnings, since we take care of the
*real* problem (freezing failure) and hence, after that, the warnings are
pretty harmless anyway.Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
01 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification.
Standardized the location of __printf too.Done via script and a little typing.
$ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \
grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \
xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*\)\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }'[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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____call_usermodehelper() now erases any credentials set by the
subprocess_inf::init() function. The problem is that commit
17f60a7da150 ("capabilites: allow the application of capability limits
to usermode helpers") creates and commits new credentials with
prepare_kernel_cred() after the call to the init() function. This wipes
all keyrings after umh_keys_init() is called.The best way to deal with this is to put the init() call just prior to
the commit_creds() call, and pass the cred pointer to init(). That
means that umh_keys_init() and suchlike can modify the credentials
_before_ they are published and potentially in use by the rest of the
system.This prevents request_key() from working as it is prevented from passing
the session keyring it set up with the authorisation token to
/sbin/request-key, and so the latter can't assume the authority to
instantiate the key. This causes the in-kernel DNS resolver to fail
with ENOKEY unconditionally.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Eric Paris
Tested-by: Jeff Layton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 May, 2011
1 commit
18 May, 2011
2 commits
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We need to prevent kernel-forked processes during system poweroff.
Such processes try to access the filesystem whose disks we are
trying to shutdown at the same time. This causes delays and exceptions
in the storage drivers.A follow-up patch will add these calls and need usermodehelper_disable()
also on systems without suspend support.Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
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Some drivers erroneously use request_firmware() from their ->resume()
(or ->thaw(), or ->restore()) callbacks, which is not going to work
unless the firmware has been built in. This causes system resume to
stall until the firmware-loading timeout expires, which makes users
think that the resume has failed and reboot their machines
unnecessarily. For this reason, make _request_firmware() print a
warning and return immediately with error code if it has been called
when tasks are frozen and it's impossible to start any new usermode
helpers.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Valdis Kletnieks
04 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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There is no way to limit the capabilities of usermodehelpers. This problem
reared its head recently when someone complained that any user with
cap_net_admin was able to load arbitrary kernel modules, even though the user
didn't have cap_sys_module. The reason is because the actual load is done by
a usermode helper and those always have the full cap set. This patch addes new
sysctls which allow us to bound the permissions of usermode helpers./proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/bset
/proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/inheritableYou must have CAP_SYS_MODULE and CAP_SETPCAP to change these (changes are
&= ONLY). When the kernel launches a usermodehelper it will do so with these
as the bset and pI.-v2: make globals static
create spinlock to protect globals-v3: require both CAP_SETPCAP and CAP_SYS_MODULE
-v4: fix the typo s/CAP_SET_PCAP/CAP_SETPCAP/ because I didn't commit
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
No-objection-from: Serge E. Hallyn
Acked-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan
Signed-off-by: James Morris
28 May, 2010
4 commits
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Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this member
and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the context of
freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred copied from its
parent kthread, keventd.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Neil Horman
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
call_usermodehelper_keys() uses call_usermodehelper_setkeys() to change
subprocess_info->cred in advance. Now that we have info->init() we can
change this code to set tgcred->session_keyring in context of execing
kernel thread.Note: since currently call_usermodehelper_keys() is never called with
UMH_NO_WAIT, call_usermodehelper_keys()->key_get() and umh_keys_cleanup()
are not really needed, we could rely on install_session_keyring_to_cred()
which does key_get() on success.Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Neil Horman
Acked-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The first patch in this series introduced an init function to the
call_usermodehelper api so that processes could be customized by caller.
This patch takes advantage of that fact, by customizing the helper in
do_coredump to create the pipe and set its core limit to one (for our
recusrsion check). This lets us clean up the previous uglyness in the
usermodehelper internals and factor call_usermodehelper out entirely.
While I'm at it, we can also modify the helper setup to look for a core
limit value of 1 rather than zero for our recursion checkSigned-off-by: Neil Horman
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
About 6 months ago, I made a set of changes to how the core-dump-to-a-pipe
feature in the kernel works. We had reports of several races, including
some reports of apps bypassing our recursion check so that a process that
was forked as part of a core_pattern setup could infinitely crash and
refork until the system crashed.We fixed those by improving our recursion checks. The new check basically
refuses to fork a process if its core limit is zero, which works well.Unfortunately, I've been getting grief from maintainer of user space
programs that are inserted as the forked process of core_pattern. They
contend that in order for their programs (such as abrt and apport) to
work, all the running processes in a system must have their core limits
set to a non-zero value, to which I say 'yes'. I did this by design, and
think thats the right way to do things.But I've been asked to ease this burden on user space enough times that I
thought I would take a look at it. The first suggestion was to make the
recursion check fail on a non-zero 'special' number, like one. That way
the core collector process could set its core size ulimit to 1, and enable
the kernel's recursion detection. This isn't a bad idea on the surface,
but I don't like it since its opt-in, in that if a program like abrt or
apport has a bug and fails to set such a core limit, we're left with a
recursively crashing system again.So I've come up with this. What I've done is modify the
call_usermodehelper api such that an extra parameter is added, a function
pointer which will be called by the user helper task, after it forks, but
before it exec's the required process. This will give the caller the
opportunity to get a call back in the processes context, allowing it to do
whatever it needs to to the process in the kernel prior to exec-ing the
user space code. In the case of do_coredump, this callback is ues to set
the core ulimit of the helper process to 1. This elimnates the opt-in
problem that I had above, as it allows the ulimit for core sizes to be set
to the value of 1, which is what the recursion check looks for in
do_coredump.This patch:
Create new function call_usermodehelper_fns() and allow it to assign both
an init and cleanup function, as we'll as arbitrary data.The init function is called from the context of the forked process and
allows for customization of the helper process prior to calling exec. Its
return code gates the continuation of the process, or causes its exit.
Also add an arbitrary data pointer to the subprocess_info struct allowing
for data to be passed from the caller to the new process, and the
subsequent cleanup processAlso, use this patch to cleanup the cleanup function. It currently takes
an argp and envp pointer for freeing, which is ugly. Lets instead just
make the subprocess_info structure public, and pass that to the cleanup
and init routinesSigned-off-by: Neil Horman
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file,
and then include them in relavant .c files.Move modprobe_path extern declaration to linux/kmod.h
Move modules_disabled extern declaration to linux/module.hSigned-off-by: Dave Young
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Since the whole point of try_then_request_module is to retry
the operation after a module has been loaded, we must wait for
the module to fully load.Otherwise all sort of things start breaking, e.g., you won't
be able to read your encrypted disks on the first attempt.Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
Tested-by: Maciej Rutecki
Tested-by: Patrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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There seems to be a common pattern in the kernel where drivers want to
call request_module() from inside a module_init() function. Currently
this would deadlock.As a result, several drivers go through hoops like scheduling things via
kevent, or creating custom work queues (because kevent can deadlock on them).This patch changes this to use a request_module_nowait() function macro instead,
which just fires the modprobe off but doesn't wait for it, and thus avoids the
original deadlock entirely.On my laptop this already results in one less kernel thread running..
(Includes Jiri's patch to use enum umh_wait)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (bool-ified)
Cc: Jiri Slaby
17 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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We currently use a PM notifier to disable user mode helpers before suspend
and hibernation and to re-enable them during resume. However, this is not
an ideal solution, because if any drivers want to upload firmware into
memory before suspend, they have to use a PM notifier for this purpose and
there is no guarantee that the ordering of PM notifiers will be as
expected (ie. the notifier that disables user mode helpers has to be run
after the driver's notifier used for uploading the firmware).For this reason, it seems better to move the disabling and enabling of
user mode helpers to separate functions that will be called by the PM core
as necessary.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Alan Stern
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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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
22 Jul, 2008
2 commits
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Always compile request_module when the kernel allows modules.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell -
This reworks try_then_request_module to only invoke the "lookup"
function "x" once when the kernel is not modular.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
18 Jul, 2007
2 commits
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Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in
call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that. I've
preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should
still work OK.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Johannes Berg
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas
Cc: Joel Becker
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: Kay Sievers
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: David Howells -
Rather than having hundreds of variations of call_usermodehelper for
various pieces of usermode state which could be set up, split the
info allocation and initialization from the actual process execution.This means the general pattern becomes:
info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp); /* basic state */
call_usermodehelper_(info, stuff...); /* extra state */
call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait); /* run process and free info */This patch introduces wrappers for all the existing calling styles for
call_usermodehelper_*, but folds their implementations into one.Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Bj?rn Steinbrink
Cc: Randy Dunlap
24 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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This reverts commit c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f.
It turns out that we end up with a loop trying to load the unix
module and calling netfilter to do that. Will redo the patch
later to not have this loop.Acked-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
17 Feb, 2007
1 commit
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On recent systems, calls to /sbin/modprobe are handled by udev depending
on the kind of device the kernel has discovered. This patch creates an
uevent for the kernels internal request_module(), to let udev take control
over the request, instead of forking the binary directly by the kernel.
The direct execution of /sbin/modprobe can be disabled by setting:
/sys/module/kmod/mod_request_helper (/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe)
to an empty string, the same way /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is disabled on an
udev system.Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
01 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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A new member in the ever growing family of call_usermode* functions is
born. The new call_usermodehelper_pipe() function allows to pipe data to
the stdin of the called user mode progam and behaves otherwise like the
normal call_usermodehelp() (except that it always waits for the child to
finish)Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Apr, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
24 Jun, 2005
1 commit
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The attached patch makes it possible to pass a session keyring through to the
process spawned by call_usermodehelper(). This allows patch 3/3 to pass an
authorisation key through to /sbin/request-key, thus permitting better access
controls when doing just-in-time key creation.Signed-Off-By: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
