Re: [PATCH] poweroff: fix bug in orderly_poweroff

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Feng Hong <hongfeng@marvell.com> writes:

> Hi, Eric
>
> 1. We are developing on an Android phone platform, we use thermal
> framework to monitor the temperature, when the temperature above like
> 110 degree, thermal framework will use orderly_shutdown to shutdown
> phone, however, on Android platform there is no " /sbin/poweroff " cmd
> ready . Then we want "fail ret" to trigger force shutdown (use
> kernel_power_off), but always we get "suc ret"

> 2. Here the caller just wait for "poweroff" userspace application, if
> it block the called, then it's the "poweroff" problem itself

> 3. As in the original orderly_shutdown design, we must get the right
> "ret", if this ret is always "0", then it obey orderly_poweroff design
> goal. Step 2: force shutdown is always useless code. 

That sounds like a clear case that we need to change it to
UMH_WAIT_EXEC.

Changing it to UMH_WAIT_PROC seems much more dangerous.

Eric