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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2012-03-23 15:02:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-23 16:58:42 -0700
commit3e63a93b987685f02421e18b2aa452d20553a88b (patch)
tree4674115a6be71dbd2a78a411cb3617842acd8c8e /kernel/kmod.c
parent5b9bd473e3b8a8c6c4ae99be475e6e9b27568555 (diff)
downloadlinux-3e63a93b987685f02421e18b2aa452d20553a88b.tar.bz2
kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helper
No functional changes. Move the call_usermodehelper code from __request_module() into the new simple helper, call_modprobe(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> 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.c24
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 685b246b13b0..56a29e812ff0 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -60,6 +60,21 @@ static DECLARE_RWSEM(umhelper_sem);
*/
char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe";
+static int call_modprobe(char *module_name, int wait)
+{
+ static char *envp[] = {
+ "HOME=/",
+ "TERM=linux",
+ "PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin",
+ NULL
+ };
+
+ char *argv[] = { modprobe_path, "-q", "--", module_name, NULL };
+
+ return call_usermodehelper_fns(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
+ wait, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+}
+
/**
* __request_module - try to load a kernel module
* @wait: wait (or not) for the operation to complete
@@ -81,11 +96,6 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
char module_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
unsigned int max_modprobes;
int ret;
- char *argv[] = { modprobe_path, "-q", "--", module_name, NULL };
- static char *envp[] = { "HOME=/",
- "TERM=linux",
- "PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin",
- NULL };
static atomic_t kmod_concurrent = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
#define MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT 50 /* Completely arbitrary value - KAO */
static int kmod_loop_msg;
@@ -128,9 +138,7 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);
- ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
- wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC,
- NULL, NULL, NULL);
+ ret = call_modprobe(module_name, wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
return ret;