PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozen

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 <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
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Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-06 20:09:42 +02:00
parent e1866b33b1
commit a144c6a6c9
3 changed files with 19 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -301,6 +301,15 @@ void usermodehelper_enable(void)
usermodehelper_disabled = 0;
}
/**
* usermodehelper_is_disabled - check if new helpers are allowed to be started
*/
bool usermodehelper_is_disabled(void)
{
return usermodehelper_disabled;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usermodehelper_is_disabled);
static void helper_lock(void)
{
atomic_inc(&running_helpers);