linux-toradex.git/lib/kobject_uevent.c, branch v4.4-rc6

lib/kobject_uevent.c: remove redundant include

2015-02-13T02:54:15+00:00

The file doesn't seem to use anything from linux/user_namespace.h, and
removing it yields byte-identical object code and strictly fewer
dependencies in the .cmd file.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.

2014-04-25T19:00:49+00:00

Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems
these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl.

Reported-by: Darren Shepherd 
Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent

2014-04-03T23:21:04+00:00

Currently kobject_uevent has somewhat unpredictable semantics.  The
point is, since it may call a usermode helper and wait for it to execute
(UMH_WAIT_EXEC), it is impossible to say for sure what lock dependencies
it will introduce for the caller - strictly speaking it depends on what
fs the binary is located on and the set of locks fork may take.  There
are quite a few kobject_uevent's users that do not take this into
account and call it with various mutexes taken, e.g.  rtnl_mutex,
net_mutex, which might potentially lead to a deadlock.

Since there is actually no reason to wait for the usermode helper to
execute there, let's make kobject_uevent start the helper asynchronously
with the aid of the UMH_NO_WAIT flag.

Personally, I'm interested in this, because I really want kobject_uevent
to be called under the slab_mutex in the slub implementation as it used
to be some time ago, because it greatly simplifies synchronization and
automatically fixes a kmemcg-related race.  However, there was a
deadlock detected on an attempt to call kobject_uevent under the
slab_mutex (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/45), which was reported
to be fixed by releasing the slab_mutex for kobject_uevent.

Unfortunately, there was no information about who exactly blocked on the
slab_mutex causing the usermode helper to stall, neither have I managed
to find this out or reproduce the issue.

BTW, this is not the first attempt to make kobject_uevent use
UMH_NO_WAIT.  Previous one was made by commit f520360d93cd ("kobject:
don't block for each kobject_uevent"), but it was wrong (it passed
arguments allocated on stack to async thread) so it was reverted in
05f54c13cd0c ("Revert "kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent".").
It targeted on speeding up the boot process though.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

net: fix "queues" uevent between network namespaces

2014-01-20T04:02:02+00:00

When I create a new namespace with 'ip netns add net0', or add/remove
new links in a namespace with 'ip link add/delete type veth', rx/tx
queues events can be got in all namespaces. That is because rx/tx queue
ktypes do not have namespace support, and their kobj parents are setted to
NULL. This patch is to fix it.

Reported-by: Libo Chen 
Signed-off-by: Libo Chen 
Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_create

2012-09-08T22:46:30+00:00

This patch defines netlink_kernel_create as a wrapper function of
__netlink_kernel_create to hide the struct module *me parameter
(which seems to be THIS_MODULE in all existing netlink subsystems).

Suggested by David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: kill netlink_set_nonroot

2012-09-08T22:45:27+00:00

Replace netlink_set_nonroot by one new field `flags' in
struct netlink_kernel_cfg that is passed to netlink_kernel_create.

This patch also renames NL_NONROOT_* to NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_* since
now the flags field in nl_table is generic (so we can add more
flags if needed in the future).

Also adjust all callers in the net-next tree to use these flags
instead of netlink_set_nonroot.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_create

2012-06-29T23:46:02+00:00

This patch adds the following structure:

struct netlink_kernel_cfg {
        unsigned int    groups;
        void            (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb);
        struct mutex    *cb_mutex;
};

That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations
for netlink kernel sockets.

I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the
existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still
left in the original interface.

That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows
easy extensibility of this interface in the future.

This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

2012-03-24T17:24:31+00:00

Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker:
 "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really
  need it.

  These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously.  We now have
  things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or
  subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible.  What is
  remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a
  single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir.

  Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from
  independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups
(including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull).

* tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
  fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
  includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h

uevent: send events in correct order according to seqnum (v3)

2012-03-08T20:56:40+00:00

The queue handling in the udev daemon assumes that the events are
ordered.

Before this patch uevent_seqnum is incremented under sequence_lock,
than an event is send uner uevent_sock_mutex. I want to say that code
contained a window between incrementing seqnum and sending an event.

This patch locks uevent_sock_mutex before incrementing uevent_seqnum.

v2: delete sequence_lock, uevent_seqnum is protected by uevent_sock_mutex
v3: unlock the mutex before the goto exit

Thanks for Kay for the comments.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin 
Tested-By: Kay Sievers 
Cc: stable 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible

2012-03-07T20:04:04+00:00

For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include.  Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker