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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2013-07-03 15:08:15 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-03 16:08:02 -0700
commit7f57cfa4e2aa29fabe69e41529fd26578adc9b58 (patch)
tree0f90bd947ce31994ac7063d1d816fc20b346a789 /kernel
parent77d55918029ef4626bfd6ba716728dcc7d919de3 (diff)
downloadlinux-7f57cfa4e2aa29fabe69e41529fd26578adc9b58.tar.bz2
usermodehelper: kill the sub_info->path[0] check
call_usermodehelper_exec() does nothing but returns success if path[0] == 0. The only user which needs this strange feature is request_module(), it can check modprobe_path[0] itself like other users do if they want to detect the "disabled by admin" case. Kill it. Not only it looks strange, it can confuse other callers. And this allows us to revert 264b83c0 ("usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL"), do_execve(NULL) is safe. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 8241906c4b61..fb326365b694 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(wait && current_is_async());
+ if (!modprobe_path[0])
+ return 0;
+
va_start(args, fmt);
ret = vsnprintf(module_name, MODULE_NAME_LEN, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
@@ -569,14 +572,6 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait)
int retval = 0;
helper_lock();
- if (!sub_info->path) {
- retval = -EINVAL;
- goto out;
- }
-
- if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0')
- goto out;
-
if (!khelper_wq || usermodehelper_disabled) {
retval = -EBUSY;
goto out;