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| author | Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> | 2008-01-17 15:21:21 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-02-08 12:01:46 -0800 |
| commit | 03fce1f0345c212fd835bb764d161810b0e6bdd4 (patch) | |
| tree | e9b4bdf0e28c269368793d320cadf443701c7330 /kernel | |
| parent | 30f7ec38c20ec15019fd9a4566391253f139843c (diff) | |
Fix unbalanced helper_lock in kernel/kmod.c
patch 784680336b616dcc4c17cbd25add3b49c555cdeb in mainline.
call_usermodehelper_exec() has an exit path that can leave the
helper_lock() call at the top of the routine unbalanced. The attached
patch fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kmod.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index c6a4f8aebeb..bb7df2a28bd 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -451,13 +451,11 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, enum umh_wait wait) { DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done); - int retval; + int retval = 0; helper_lock(); - if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0') { - retval = 0; + if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0') goto out; - } if (!khelper_wq || usermodehelper_disabled) { retval = -EBUSY; @@ -468,13 +466,14 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, sub_info->wait = wait; queue_work(khelper_wq, &sub_info->work); - if (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) /* task has freed sub_info */ - return 0; + if (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) /* task has freed sub_info */ + goto unlock; wait_for_completion(&done); retval = sub_info->retval; - out: +out: call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info); +unlock: helper_unlock(); return retval; } |