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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2020-05-21 17:58:15 +0300
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2020-05-21 17:58:15 +0300
commit6670ee2ef219ac9e1c836a277dda0c949ad8b1ff (patch)
tree0eee3d97941caab0bc85f93a7653b0cfd4abf51b /kernel/umh.c
parent746c6237ece641da79df09abcf87bc29f6f9665b (diff)
parentf2453978a4f2ddb1938fa80e9bf0c9d6252bd5f8 (diff)
downloadlinux-6670ee2ef219ac9e1c836a277dda0c949ad8b1ff.tar.xz
Merge branch 'nfsd-5.8' of git://linux-nfs.org/~cel/cel-2.6 into for-5.8-incoming
Highlights of this series: * Remove serialization of sending RPC/RDMA Replies * Convert the TCP socket send path to use xdr_buf::bvecs (pre-requisite for RPC-on-TLS) * Fix svcrdma backchannel sendto return code * Convert a number of dprintk call sites to use tracepoints * Fix the "suggest braces around empty body in an 'else' statement" warning
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/umh.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/umh.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/umh.c b/kernel/umh.c
index 7f255b5a8845..3474d6aa55d8 100644
--- a/kernel/umh.c
+++ b/kernel/umh.c
@@ -475,6 +475,12 @@ static void umh_clean_and_save_pid(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
struct umh_info *umh_info = info->data;
+ /* cleanup if umh_pipe_setup() was successful but exec failed */
+ if (info->pid && info->retval) {
+ fput(umh_info->pipe_to_umh);
+ fput(umh_info->pipe_from_umh);
+ }
+
argv_free(info->argv);
umh_info->pid = info->pid;
}
@@ -544,6 +550,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fork_usermode_blob);
* Runs a user-space application. The application is started
* asynchronously if wait is not set, and runs as a child of system workqueues.
* (ie. it runs with full root capabilities and optimized affinity).
+ *
+ * Note: successful return value does not guarantee the helper was called at
+ * all. You can't rely on sub_info->{init,cleanup} being called even for
+ * UMH_WAIT_* wait modes as STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH="" turns all helpers
+ * into a successful no-op.
*/
int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait)
{