usermodehelper: kill the kmod_thread_locker logic

Now that we do not call kernel_thread(CLONE_VFORK) from the worker thread we can not deadlock if do_execve() in turn triggers another call_usermodehelper(), we can remove the kmod_thread_locker code. Note: we should probably kill khelper_wq and simply use one of the global workqueues, say, system_unbound_wq, this special wq for umh buys nothing nowadays. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
lucaceresoli · Dec 11, 2014 · 7f6def9 · 7f6def9
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commit 7f6def9
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 30 deletions.
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -47,13 +47,6 @@ extern int max_threads;
 
 static struct workqueue_struct *khelper_wq;
 
-/*
- * kmod_thread_locker is used for deadlock avoidance.  There is no explicit
- * locking to protect this global - it is private to the singleton khelper
- * thread and should only ever be modified by that thread.
- */
-static const struct task_struct *kmod_thread_locker;
-
 #define CAP_BSET	(void *)1
 #define CAP_PI		(void *)2
 
@@ -273,13 +266,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
 	do_exit(0);
 }
 
-static int call_helper(void *data)
-{
-	/* Worker thread started blocking khelper thread. */
-	kmod_thread_locker = current;
-	return ____call_usermodehelper(data);
-}
-
 /* Keventd can't block, but this (a child) can. */
 static int wait_for_helper(void *data)
 {
@@ -327,11 +313,9 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct work_struct *work)
 	if (sub_info->wait & UMH_WAIT_PROC)
 		pid = kernel_thread(wait_for_helper, sub_info,
 				    CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
-	else {
-		pid = kernel_thread(call_helper, sub_info, SIGCHLD);
-		/* Worker thread stopped blocking khelper thread. */
-		kmod_thread_locker = NULL;
-	}
+	else
+		pid = kernel_thread(____call_usermodehelper, sub_info,
+				    SIGCHLD);
 
 	if (pid < 0) {
 		sub_info->retval = pid;
@@ -564,17 +548,6 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait)
 		retval = -EBUSY;
 		goto out;
 	}
-	/*
-	 * Worker thread must not wait for khelper thread at below
-	 * wait_for_completion() if the thread was created with CLONE_VFORK
-	 * flag, for khelper thread is already waiting for the thread at
-	 * wait_for_completion() in do_fork().
-	 */
-	if (wait != UMH_NO_WAIT && current == kmod_thread_locker) {
-		retval = -EBUSY;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Set the completion pointer only if there is a waiter.
 	 * This makes it possible to use umh_complete to free