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From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, rusty@au1.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] call_usermodehelper needs to wait longer
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 19:21:43 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040309135143.GB26645@in.ibm.com> (raw)

During my testing of call_usermodehelper, I noticed that 
if it is called from a workqueue function, it does really wait
(when asked to) for the usermodehelper to exit.

Patch below should fix it. It has been tested against 2.6.4-rc2-mm1
on a 4-way x86 SMP box.

--- kmod.c.org  2004-03-09 18:52:19.000000000 +0530
+++ kmod.c      2004-03-09 18:52:38.000000000 +0530
@@ -258,10 +258,13 @@
        if (current_is_keventd()) {
                /* We can't wait on keventd! */
                __call_usermodehelper(&sub_info);
-       } else {
+               if (!wait)
+                       goto out;
+       } else
                schedule_work(&work);
-               wait_for_completion(&done);
-       }
+
+       wait_for_completion(&done);
+
 out:
        return sub_info.retval;
 }



-- 


Thanks and Regards,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs,
Bangalore, INDIA - 560017

             reply	other threads:[~2004-03-09 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-09 13:51 Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2004-03-09 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-10  8:24   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2004-03-10 10:47     ` Rusty Russell

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