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authorLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>2013-04-30 15:28:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-30 17:04:06 -0700
commit66e5b7e1948cdbdca2b0cc6ddc6d69ee84583fb4 (patch)
treeaab4bddfc97523c11a7e3714644a29373c8d4a85 /kernel/kmod.c
parent907ed1328d2a748f3d6028503d3e04c74ea62730 (diff)
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kmod: remove call_usermodehelper_fns()
This function suffers from not being able to determine if the cleanup is called in case it returns -ENOMEM. Nobody is using it anymore, so let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> 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.c31
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)