summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/kernel/kmod.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>2012-05-31 16:26:15 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-31 17:49:28 -0700
commit785042f2e275089e22c36b462f6495ce8d91732d (patch)
tree4e847408b4e675c7c616d357ae9b330f7104fbc0 /kernel/kmod.c
parent81ab6e7b26b453a795d46f2616ed0e31d97f05b9 (diff)
downloadlinux-785042f2e275089e22c36b462f6495ce8d91732d.tar.bz2
kmod: move call_usermodehelper_fns() to .c file and unexport all it's helpers
If we move call_usermodehelper_fns() to kmod.c file and EXPORT_SYMBOL it we can avoid exporting all it's helper functions: call_usermodehelper_setup call_usermodehelper_setfns call_usermodehelper_exec And make all of them static to kmod.c Since the optimizer will see all these as a single call site it will inline them inside call_usermodehelper_fns(). So we loose the call to _fns but gain 3 calls to the helpers. (Not that it matters) Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c25
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 21a0f8e99102..1f596e4de306 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -478,6 +478,7 @@ static void helper_unlock(void)
* structure. This should be passed to call_usermodehelper_exec to
* exec the process and free the structure.
*/
+static
struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
char **envp, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
@@ -493,7 +494,6 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
out:
return sub_info;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setup);
/**
* call_usermodehelper_setfns - set a cleanup/init function
@@ -511,6 +511,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setup);
* Function must be runnable in either a process context or the
* context in which call_usermodehelper_exec is called.
*/
+static
void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
int (*init)(struct subprocess_info *info, struct cred *new),
void (*cleanup)(struct subprocess_info *info),
@@ -520,7 +521,6 @@ void call_usermodehelper_setfns(struct subprocess_info *info,
info->init = init;
info->data = data;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setfns);
/**
* call_usermodehelper_exec - start a usermode application
@@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setfns);
* asynchronously if wait is not set, and runs as a child of keventd.
* (ie. it runs with full root capabilities).
*/
+static
int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait)
{
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
@@ -575,7 +576,25 @@ unlock:
helper_unlock();
return retval;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(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)
+{
+ 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);
+
+ if (info == NULL)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ call_usermodehelper_setfns(info, init, cleanup, data);
+
+ return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_fns);
static int proc_cap_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)