Hi!
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> At present, if a user mode helper is running while
> usermodehelper_pm_callback()
> is executed, the helper may be frozen and the completion in
> call_usermodehelper_exec() won't be completed until user space processes are
> thawed. As a result, the freezing of kernel threads may fail, which is not
> desirable.
>
> Prevent this from happening by introducing a counter of running user mode
> helpers and allowing usermodehelper_pm_callback() to succeed for
> action = PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE or action = PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE only if there
> are no helpers running. [Namely, usermodehelper_pm_callback() waits for at
> most
> RUNNING_HELPERS_TIMEOUT for the number of running helpers to become zero and
> fails if that doesn't happen.]
>
> Special thanks to Uli Luckas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for reviewing the previous
> versions of this patch and for very useful comments.
...
> Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Eh, not sure this header is worth anything. Sometimes I'm lazy and
stop when I see first problem.
> switch (action) {
> case PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE:
> case PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE:
> usermodehelper_disabled = 1;
> - return NOTIFY_OK;
> + retval = wait_event_timeout(running_helpers_waitq,
> + atomic_read(&running_helpers) == 0,
Are you sure here? What happens when atomic variable changes between
the atomic_read and the function call?
Pavel
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