call_usermodehelper(): increase reliability

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 <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 14e97282eb6..6c218804604 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ int orderly_poweroff(bool force)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	info = call_usermodehelper_setup(argv[0], argv, envp);
+	info = call_usermodehelper_setup(argv[0], argv, envp, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (info == NULL) {
 		argv_free(argv);
 		goto out;