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Commit 3210f0ec authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Restore call_usermodehelper_pipe() behaviour



The semantics of call_usermodehelper_pipe() used to be that it would fork
the helper, and wait for the kernel thread to be started.  This was
implemented by setting sub_info.wait to 0 (implicitly), and doing a
wait_for_completion().

As part of the cleanup done in 0ab4dc92,
call_usermodehelper_pipe() was changed to pass 1 as the value for wait to
call_usermodehelper_exec().

This is equivalent to setting sub_info.wait to 1, which is a change from
the previous behaviour.  Using 1 instead of 0 causes
__call_usermodehelper() to start the kernel thread running
wait_for_helper(), rather than directly calling ____call_usermodehelper().

The end result is that the calling kernel code blocks until the user mode
helper finishes.  As the helper is expecting input on stdin, and now no one
is writing anything, everything locks up (observed in do_coredump).

The fix is to change the 1 to UMH_WAIT_EXEC (aka 0), indicating that we
want to wait for the kernel thread to be started, but not for the helper to
finish.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f629307c
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