提交 86d56134 编写于 作者: M Michael Marineau 提交者: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.

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: NDarren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
上级 d911d987
menu "Generic Driver Options"
config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
string "path to uevent helper"
default ""
config UEVENT_HELPER
bool "Support for uevent helper"
default y
help
Path to uevent helper program forked by the kernel for
The uevent helper program is forked by the kernel for
every uevent.
Before the switch to the netlink-based uevent source, this was
used to hook hotplug scripts into kernel device events. It
......@@ -15,8 +15,13 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
To disable user space helper program execution at early boot
time specify an empty string here. This setting can be altered
config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
string "path to uevent helper"
depends on UEVENT_HELPER
default ""
help
To disable user space helper program execution at by default
specify an empty string here. This setting can still be altered
via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper
later at runtime.
......
......@@ -32,8 +32,10 @@
#define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP 32 /* number of env pointers */
#define UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE 2048 /* buffer for the variables */
#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
/* path to the userspace helper executed on an event */
extern char uevent_helper[];
#endif
/* counter to tag the uevent, read only except for the kobject core */
extern u64 uevent_seqnum;
......
......@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ static ssize_t uevent_seqnum_show(struct kobject *kobj,
}
KERNEL_ATTR_RO(uevent_seqnum);
#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
/* uevent helper program, used during early boot */
static ssize_t uevent_helper_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
......@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ static ssize_t uevent_helper_store(struct kobject *kobj,
return count;
}
KERNEL_ATTR_RW(uevent_helper);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING
static ssize_t profiling_show(struct kobject *kobj,
......@@ -189,7 +190,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_kobj);
static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = {
&fscaps_attr.attr,
&uevent_seqnum_attr.attr,
#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
&uevent_helper_attr.attr,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING
&profiling_attr.attr,
#endif
......
......@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.extra2 = &one,
},
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
{
.procname = "hotplug",
.data = &uevent_helper,
......@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dostring,
},
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG
{
.procname = "sg-big-buff",
......
......@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
u64 uevent_seqnum;
#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
char uevent_helper[UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN] = CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_NET
struct uevent_sock {
struct list_head list;
......@@ -109,6 +111,7 @@ static int kobj_bcast_filter(struct sock *dsk, struct sk_buff *skb, void *data)
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
static int kobj_usermode_filter(struct kobject *kobj)
{
const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *ops;
......@@ -147,6 +150,7 @@ static void cleanup_uevent_env(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
kfree(info->data);
}
#endif
/**
* kobject_uevent_env - send an uevent with environmental data
......@@ -323,6 +327,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
#endif
mutex_unlock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
/* call uevent_helper, usually only enabled during early boot */
if (uevent_helper[0] && !kobj_usermode_filter(kobj)) {
struct subprocess_info *info;
......@@ -347,6 +352,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
env = NULL; /* freed by cleanup_uevent_env */
}
}
#endif
exit:
kfree(devpath);
......
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