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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kmod.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index 9941a4f155d1..1296e72e4161 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -555,8 +555,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_setup); * call_usermodehelper_exec - start a usermode application * @sub_info: information about the subprocessa * @wait: wait for the application to finish and return status. - * when -1 don't wait at all, but you get no useful error back when - * the program couldn't be exec'ed. This makes it safe to call + * when UMH_NO_WAIT don't wait at all, but you get no useful error back + * when the program couldn't be exec'ed. This makes it safe to call * from interrupt context. * * Runs a user-space application. The application is started @@ -616,29 +616,32 @@ unlock: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec); -/* - * call_usermodehelper_fns() will not run the caller-provided cleanup function - * if a memory allocation failure is experienced. So the caller might need to - * check the call_usermodehelper_fns() return value: if it is -ENOMEM, perform - * the necessaary cleanup within the caller. +/** + * call_usermodehelper() - prepare and start a usermode application + * @path: path to usermode executable + * @argv: arg vector for process + * @envp: environment for process + * @wait: wait for the application to finish and return status. + * when UMH_NO_WAIT don't wait at all, but you get no useful error back + * when the program couldn't be exec'ed. This makes it safe to call + * from interrupt context. + * + * This function is the equivalent to use call_usermodehelper_setup() and + * 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) +int call_usermodehelper(char *path, char **argv, char **envp, int wait) { 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, - init, cleanup, data); - + NULL, NULL, NULL); if (info == NULL) return -ENOMEM; return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_fns); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper); static int proc_cap_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) |