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2016-10-28kobject: improve function-level documentationJulia Lawall1-3/+3
In the first case, rename the second variable to correspond to the name found in the function parameter list. In the remaining cases, reorder the variables to correspond to their order in the parameter list. Issue detected using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-02-12lib/kobject_uevent.c: remove redundant includeRasmus Villemoes1-1/+0
The file doesn't seem to use anything from linux/user_namespace.h, and removing it yields byte-identical object code and strictly fewer dependencies in the .cmd file. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-25kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.Michael Marineau1-0/+6
Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl. Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-03kobject: don't block for each kobject_ueventVladimir Davydov1-6/+36
Currently kobject_uevent has somewhat unpredictable semantics. The point is, since it may call a usermode helper and wait for it to execute (UMH_WAIT_EXEC), it is impossible to say for sure what lock dependencies it will introduce for the caller - strictly speaking it depends on what fs the binary is located on and the set of locks fork may take. There are quite a few kobject_uevent's users that do not take this into account and call it with various mutexes taken, e.g. rtnl_mutex, net_mutex, which might potentially lead to a deadlock. Since there is actually no reason to wait for the usermode helper to execute there, let's make kobject_uevent start the helper asynchronously with the aid of the UMH_NO_WAIT flag. Personally, I'm interested in this, because I really want kobject_uevent to be called under the slab_mutex in the slub implementation as it used to be some time ago, because it greatly simplifies synchronization and automatically fixes a kmemcg-related race. However, there was a deadlock detected on an attempt to call kobject_uevent under the slab_mutex (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/45), which was reported to be fixed by releasing the slab_mutex for kobject_uevent. Unfortunately, there was no information about who exactly blocked on the slab_mutex causing the usermode helper to stall, neither have I managed to find this out or reproduce the issue. BTW, this is not the first attempt to make kobject_uevent use UMH_NO_WAIT. Previous one was made by commit f520360d93cd ("kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent"), but it was wrong (it passed arguments allocated on stack to async thread) so it was reverted in 05f54c13cd0c ("Revert "kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent"."). It targeted on speeding up the boot process though. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-19net: fix "queues" uevent between network namespacesWeilong Chen1-2/+8
When I create a new namespace with 'ip netns add net0', or add/remove new links in a namespace with 'ip link add/delete type veth', rx/tx queues events can be got in all namespaces. That is because rx/tx queue ktypes do not have namespace support, and their kobj parents are setted to NULL. This patch is to fix it. Reported-by: Libo Chen <chenlibo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <chenlibo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-08netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_createPablo Neira Ayuso1-2/+1
This patch defines netlink_kernel_create as a wrapper function of __netlink_kernel_create to hide the struct module *me parameter (which seems to be THIS_MODULE in all existing netlink subsystems). Suggested by David S. Miller. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-08netlink: kill netlink_set_nonrootPablo Neira Ayuso1-1/+1
Replace netlink_set_nonroot by one new field `flags' in struct netlink_kernel_cfg that is passed to netlink_kernel_create. This patch also renames NL_NONROOT_* to NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_* since now the flags field in nl_table is generic (so we can add more flags if needed in the future). Also adjust all callers in the net-next tree to use these flags instead of netlink_set_nonroot. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-29netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_createPablo Neira Ayuso1-1/+4
This patch adds the following structure: struct netlink_kernel_cfg { unsigned int groups; void (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb); struct mutex *cb_mutex; }; That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations for netlink kernel sockets. I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still left in the original interface. That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows easy extensibility of this interface in the future. This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-24Merge tag 'module-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker: "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really need it. These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously. We now have things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible. What is remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir. Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed." Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups (including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull). * tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
2012-03-08uevent: send events in correct order according to seqnum (v3)Andrew Vagin1-10/+9
The queue handling in the udev daemon assumes that the events are ordered. Before this patch uevent_seqnum is incremented under sequence_lock, than an event is send uner uevent_sock_mutex. I want to say that code contained a window between incrementing seqnum and sending an event. This patch locks uevent_sock_mutex before incrementing uevent_seqnum. v2: delete sequence_lock, uevent_seqnum is protected by uevent_sock_mutex v3: unlock the mutex before the goto exit Thanks for Kay for the comments. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Tested-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-07lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possiblePaul Gortmaker1-1/+2
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along the way. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-12-09driver-core: skip uevent generation when nobody is listeningKay Sievers1-0/+3
Most network namespaces unlikely have listeners to uevents, and should benefit from skipping all the string copies. Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-22kobj_uevent: Ignore if some listeners cannot handle messageMilan Broz1-1/+1
kobject_uevent() uses a multicast socket and should ignore if one of listeners cannot handle messages or nobody is listening at all. Easily reproducible when a process in system is cloned with CLONE_NEWNET flag. (See also http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/5256) Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23kobject_uevent: fix typo in commentsXiaotian Feng1-2/+2
s/ending/sending, s/kobject_uevent()/kobject_uevent_env() in the comments. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-06-04kobject: free memory if netlink_kernel_create() failsDan Carpenter1-0/+1
There is a kfree(ue_sk) missing on the error path if netlink_kernel_create() fails. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-06-04lib/kobject_uevent.c: fix CONIG_NET=n warningAndrew Morton1-0/+2
lib/kobject_uevent.c:87: warning: 'kobj_bcast_filter' defined but not used Repairs "hotplug: netns aware uevent_helper" Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21hotplug: netns aware uevent_helperEric W. Biederman1-2/+17
It only makes sense for uevent_helper to get events in the intial namespaces. It's invocation is not per namespace and it is not clear how we could make it's invocation namespace aware. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21kobj: Send hotplug events in the proper namespace.Eric W. Biederman1-2/+20
Utilize netlink_broacast_filtered to allow sending hotplug events in the proper namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21kobject: Send hotplug events in all network namespacesEric W. Biederman1-8/+60
Open a copy of the uevent kernel socket in each network namespace so we can send uevents in all network namespaces. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+1
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-07kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_opsEmese Revfy1-1/+1
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-16driver core: allow non-root users to listen to ueventsKay Sievers1-1/+1
Users can read sysfs files, there is no reason they should not be allowed to listen to uevents. This lets xorg and other userspace programs properly get these messages without having to be root. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-16Revert "kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent".Hugh Dickins1-1/+1
This reverts commit f520360d93cdc37de5d972dac4bf3bdef6a7f6a7. Tetsuo Handa, running a kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y and CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=/sbin/hotplug, has been hitting RCU detected CPU stalls: it's been spinning in the loop where do_execve() counts up the args (but why wasn't fixup_exception working? dunno). The recent change, switching kobject_uevent_env() from UMH_WAIT_EXEC to UMH_NO_WAIT, is broken: the exec uses args on the local stack here, and an env which is kfreed as soon as call_usermodehelper() returns. It very much needs to wait for the exec to be done. An alternative would be to keep the UMH_NO_WAIT, and complicate the code to allocate and free these resources correctly? but no, as GregKH pointed out when making the commit, CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" is a much better optimization - though some distros are still saying /sbin/hotplug in their .config, yet with no such binary in their initrd or their root. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-26Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller1-1/+8
Conflicts: drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
2009-03-24kobject: don't block for each kobject_ueventArjan van de Ven1-1/+1
Right now, the kobject_uevent code blocks for each uevent that's being generated, due to using (for hystoric reasons) UHM_WAIT_EXEC as flag to call_usermode_helper(). Specifically, the effect is that each uevent that is being sent causes the code to wake up keventd, then block until keventd has processed the work. Needless to say, this happens many times during the system boot. This patches changes that to UHN_NO_WAIT (brilliant name for a constant btw) so that we only schedule the work to fire the uevent message, but do not wait for keventd to process the work. This removes one of the bottlenecks during boot; each one of them is only a small effect, but the sum of them does add up. [Note, distros that need this are broken, they should be setting CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "", that way this code path will never be excuted at all -- gregkh] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobjectMing Lei1-0/+7
This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it from struct device, based on the following ideas: 1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way, we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject. 2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object) This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject as private part of struct device in future. [This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please ignore the last version.] Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-02-05netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast()Pablo Neira Ayuso1-0/+3
Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no messages at all were delivered: 1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0. 2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone() failure, return -ENOBUFS. 3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH. With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the messages to the listeners have failed: 1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return -ENOBUFS. 2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0. 3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH. In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for conntrackd) in return. This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side if they hit ENOBUFS. BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-06kobject: return the result of uevent sending by netlinkMing Lei1-2/+4
We need to return the result of uevent sending by netlink to caller, when uevent_helper is disabled and CONFIG_NET is defined. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06uevent: don't pass envp_ext[] as format string in kobject_uevent_env()Tejun Heo1-1/+1
kobject_uevent_env() uses envp_ext[] as verbatim format string which can cause problems ranging from unexpectedly mangled string to oops if a string in envp_ext[] contains substring which can be interpreted as format. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-26Use WARN() in lib/Arjan van de Ven1-4/+2
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. In addition, one of the if() clauses collapes into the WARN() entirely now. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-21kobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to callerWang Chen1-1/+2
kobject_uevent_env() drops the return value of call_usermodehelper(). It will make upper caller, such as dm_send_uevents(), to lose error information. BTW, Previously kobject_uevent_env() transmitted return of call_usermodehelper() to callers, but commit 5f123fbd80f4f788554636f02bf73e40f914e0d6 "[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug" removed it. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30lib: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison1-5/+5
__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-03Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2008-04-03[NETNS]: Declare init_net even without CONFIG_NET defined.Denis V. Lunev1-2/+0
This does not look good, but there is no other choice. The compilation without CONFIG_NET is broken and can not be fixed with ease. After that there is no need for the following commits: 1567ca7eec7664b8be3b07755ac59dc1b1ec76cb 3edf8fa5ccf10688a9280b5cbca8ed3947c42866 2d38f9a4f8d2ebdc799f03eecf82345825495711 Revert them. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-30fix uevent action-string regressionMark Lord1-1/+1
Mark Lord wrote: > > On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" messages. .. > Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqd: uevent: unsupported > action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version > Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqe: uevent: unsupported > action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version > Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqf: uevent: unsupported > action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version > Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyr0: uevent: unsupported > action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version .. These messages are a regression compared with 2.6.24, which did not flood the syslog with them. The actual underlying problem was introduced in 2.6.23, when somebody made the string parsing no longer accept nul-terminated strings as a valid input to store_uevent(). Eg. "add\0" was valid prior to 2.6.23, where the code regressed to require "add" without the '\0'. This patch fixes the 2.6.23 / 2.6.24 regressions, by having the code once again tolerate the trailing '\0', if present. According to GregKH, this mainly affects older Ubuntu systems, such as the one I have here that requires this fix. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-27[NETNS]: Do no include NET related headers if CONFIG_NET is not set.Denis V. Lunev1-2/+6
This fix broken compilation for 'allnoconfig'. This was introduced by Introduced by commit 1218854afa6f659be90b748cf1bc7badee954a35 ("[NET] NETNS: Omit seq_net_private->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.") Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-24Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject c filesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-4/+3
Clean up the kobject.c and kobject_uevent.c files to follow the proper coding style rules. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: auto-cleanup on final unrefKay Sievers1-0/+11
We save the current state in the object itself, so we can do proper cleanup when the last reference is dropped. If the initial reference is dropped, the object will be removed from sysfs if needed, if an "add" event was sent, "remove" will be send, and the allocated resources are released. This allows us to clean up some driver core usage as well as allowing us to do other such changes to the rest of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: clean up debugging messagesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-6/+14
The kobject debugging messages are a mess. This provides a unified message that makes them actually useful. The format for new kobject debug messages should be: kobject: 'KOBJECT_NAME' (ADDRESS): FUNCTION_NAME: message.\n Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-19Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".Robert P. J. Day1-1/+1
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and "[un]necessary". Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-12Driver core: kerneldoc - kobject_uevent_env is not "usually KOBJ_MOVE"Kay Sievers1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: exclude kobject_uevent.c for !CONFIG_HOTPLUGKay Sievers1-13/+44
Move uevent specific logic from the core into kobject_uevent.c, which does no longer require to link the unused string array if hotplug is not compiled in. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: add CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATHKay Sievers1-1/+1
The kernel creates a process for every event that is send, even when there is no binary it could execute. We are needlessly creating around 200-300 failing processes during early bootup, until we have the chance to disable it from userspace. This change allows us to disable /sbin/hotplug entirely, if you want to, by setting UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" in the kernel config. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a structKay Sievers1-86/+63
This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations. Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the error handling. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-10[NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlinkEric W. Biederman1-3/+2
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace, this includes the controlling kernel sockets. This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols to only support the initial network namespace. Request by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED. As they would if the kernel did not have the support for that netlink protocol compiled in. As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces. The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation at hash table insertion and hash table look up time. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-30kobject: fix link error when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabledCornelia Huck1-8/+8
Leaving kobject_actions[] in kobject_uevent.c, but putting it outside the #ifdef looks indeed like the best solution to me. This way, we avoid adding #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG into core.c, when all other functions called do not need such a thing. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-triggerKay Sievers1-20/+10
This allows the uevent file to handle any type of uevent action to be triggered by userspace instead of just the "add" uevent. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18usermodehelper: Tidy up waitingJeremy Fitzhardinge1-1/+1
Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that. I've preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should still work OK. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2007-04-27the overdue removal of the mount/umount ueventsAdrian Bunk1-4/+0
This patch contains the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Kobject: kobject_uevent.c: Collapse unnecessary loop nesting (top_kobj)John Anthony Kazos Jr1-4/+2
Collapses a do..while() loop within an if() to a simple while() loop for simplicity and readability. Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>