linux-toradex.git/lib/kobject_uevent.c, branch v3.0.3

kobject_uevent: fix typo in comments

2010-08-24T01:12:46+00:00

s/ending/sending, s/kobject_uevent()/kobject_uevent_env() in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: free memory if netlink_kernel_create() fails

2010-06-04T20:27:52+00:00

There is a kfree(ue_sk) missing on the error path if
netlink_kernel_create() fails.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lib/kobject_uevent.c: fix CONIG_NET=n warning

2010-06-04T20:27:52+00:00

lib/kobject_uevent.c:87: warning: 'kobj_bcast_filter' defined but not used

Repairs "hotplug: netns aware uevent_helper"

Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hotplug: netns aware uevent_helper

2010-05-21T16:37:33+00:00

It only makes sense for uevent_helper to get events
in the intial namespaces.  It's invocation is not
per namespace and it is not clear how we could make
it's invocation namespace aware.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobj: Send hotplug events in the proper namespace.

2010-05-21T16:37:32+00:00

Utilize netlink_broacast_filtered to allow sending hotplug events
in the proper namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: Send hotplug events in all network namespaces

2010-05-21T16:37:32+00:00

Open a copy of the uevent kernel socket in each network
namespace so we can send uevents in all network namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_ops

2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00

Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: allow non-root users to listen to uevents

2009-04-16T23:17:09+00:00

Users can read sysfs files, there is no reason they should not be
allowed to listen to uevents.  This lets xorg and other userspace
programs properly get these messages without having to be root.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent".

2009-04-16T21:41:24+00:00

This reverts commit f520360d93cdc37de5d972dac4bf3bdef6a7f6a7.

Tetsuo Handa, running a kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y and
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=/sbin/hotplug, has been hitting RCU detected
CPU stalls: it's been spinning in the loop where do_execve() counts up
the args (but why wasn't fixup_exception working? dunno).

The recent change, switching kobject_uevent_env() from UMH_WAIT_EXEC
to UMH_NO_WAIT, is broken: the exec uses args on the local stack here,
and an env which is kfreed as soon as call_usermodehelper() returns.
It very much needs to wait for the exec to be done.

An alternative would be to keep the UMH_NO_WAIT, and complicate the code
to allocate and free these resources correctly? but no, as GregKH
pointed out when making the commit, CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" is a
much better optimization - though some distros are still saying
/sbin/hotplug in their .config, yet with no such binary in their initrd
or their root.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Acked-by: Will Newton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds