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kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helper
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No functional changes.  Move the call_usermodehelper code from
__request_module() into the new simple helper, call_modprobe().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Mar 23, 2012
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24 changes: 16 additions & 8 deletions kernel/kmod.c
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Expand Up @@ -60,6 +60,21 @@ static DECLARE_RWSEM(umhelper_sem);
*/
char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe";

static int call_modprobe(char *module_name, int wait)
{
static char *envp[] = {
"HOME=/",
"TERM=linux",
"PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin",
NULL
};

char *argv[] = { modprobe_path, "-q", "--", module_name, NULL };

return call_usermodehelper_fns(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
wait, NULL, NULL, NULL);
}

/**
* __request_module - try to load a kernel module
* @wait: wait (or not) for the operation to complete
Expand All @@ -81,11 +96,6 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
char module_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
unsigned int max_modprobes;
int ret;
char *argv[] = { modprobe_path, "-q", "--", module_name, NULL };
static char *envp[] = { "HOME=/",
"TERM=linux",
"PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin",
NULL };
static atomic_t kmod_concurrent = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
#define MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT 50 /* Completely arbitrary value - KAO */
static int kmod_loop_msg;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -128,9 +138,7 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)

trace_module_request(module_name, wait, _RET_IP_);

ret = call_usermodehelper_fns(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC,
NULL, NULL, NULL);
ret = call_modprobe(module_name, wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);

atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
return ret;
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