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kmod: remove call_usermodehelper_fns()

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This function suffers from not being able to determine if the cleanup is
called in case it returns -ENOMEM.  Nobody is using it anymore, so let's
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lucas De Marchi 2013-04-30 15:28:09 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 907ed1328d
commit 66e5b7e194
2 changed files with 18 additions and 24 deletions
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include/linux/kmod.h
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@ -67,9 +67,7 @@ struct subprocess_info {
};
extern int
call_usermodehelper_fns(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait,
int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new),
void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *), void *data);
call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait);
extern struct subprocess_info *
call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask,
@ -79,13 +77,6 @@ call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask,
extern int
call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *info, int wait);
static inline int
call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait)
{
return call_usermodehelper_fns(path, argv, envp, wait,
NULL, NULL, NULL);
}
extern struct ctl_table usermodehelper_table[];
enum umh_disable_depth {

31
kernel/kmod.c
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@ -555,8 +555,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setup);
* call_usermodehelper_exec - start a usermode application
* @sub_info: information about the subprocessa
* @wait: wait for the application to finish and return status.
* when -1 don't wait at all, but you get no useful error back when
* the program couldn't be exec'ed. This makes it safe to call
* when UMH_NO_WAIT don't wait at all, but you get no useful error back
* when the program couldn't be exec'ed. This makes it safe to call
* from interrupt context.
*
* Runs a user-space application. The application is started
@ -616,29 +616,32 @@ unlock:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec);
/*
* call_usermodehelper_fns() will not run the caller-provided cleanup function
* if a memory allocation failure is experienced. So the caller might need to
* check the call_usermodehelper_fns() return value: if it is -ENOMEM, perform
* the necessaary cleanup within the caller.
/**
* call_usermodehelper() - prepare and start a usermode application
* @path: path to usermode executable
* @argv: arg vector for process
* @envp: environment for process
* @wait: wait for the application to finish and return status.
* when UMH_NO_WAIT don't wait at all, but you get no useful error back
* when the program couldn't be exec'ed. This makes it safe to call
* from interrupt context.
*
* This function is the equivalent to use call_usermodehelper_setup() and
* call_usermodehelper_exec().
*/
int call_usermodehelper_fns(
char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait,
int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new),
void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *), void *data)
int call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait)
{
struct subprocess_info *info;
gfp_t gfp_mask = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask,
init, cleanup, data);
NULL, NULL, NULL);
if (info == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_fns);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper);
static int proc_cap_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)