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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2010-05-26 14:43:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 09:12:45 -0700
commitc70a626d3eba373514c72287c93588b6974a0059 (patch)
treec23b890cbbeb824e52e1eaee6812bc88496a246d /kernel/kmod.c
parent685bfd2c48bb3284d31e73ff3151c957d76deda9 (diff)
downloadlinux-c70a626d3eba373514c72287c93588b6974a0059.tar.gz
umh: creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logic
Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this member
and related code.  ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the context of
freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred copied from its
parent kthread, keventd.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c19
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 743d3883517c..6194ec2f737b 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -134,8 +134,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
 	struct subprocess_info *sub_info = data;
 	int retval;
 
-	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sub_info->cred->usage) != 1);
-
 	/* Unblock all signals */
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 	flush_signal_handlers(current, 1);
@@ -143,10 +141,6 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
 	recalc_sigpending();
 	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
 
-	/* Install the credentials */
-	commit_creds(sub_info->cred);
-	sub_info->cred = NULL;
-
 	/* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
 	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);
 
@@ -174,8 +168,6 @@ void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info)
 {
 	if (info->cleanup)
 		(*info->cleanup)(info);
-	if (info->cred)
-		put_cred(info->cred);
 	kfree(info);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_freeinfo);
@@ -231,8 +223,6 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct work_struct *work)
 	pid_t pid;
 	enum umh_wait wait = sub_info->wait;
 
-	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sub_info->cred->usage) != 1);
-
 	/* CLONE_VFORK: wait until the usermode helper has execve'd
 	 * successfully We need the data structures to stay around
 	 * until that is done.  */
@@ -355,12 +345,6 @@ struct subprocess_info *call_usermodehelper_setup(char *path, char **argv,
 	sub_info->path = path;
 	sub_info->argv = argv;
 	sub_info->envp = envp;
-	sub_info->cred = prepare_usermodehelper_creds();
-	if (!sub_info->cred) {
-		kfree(sub_info);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
   out:
 	return sub_info;
 }
@@ -411,9 +395,6 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info,
 	DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
 	int retval = 0;
 
-	BUG_ON(atomic_read(&sub_info->cred->usage) != 1);
-	validate_creds(sub_info->cred);
-
 	helper_lock();
 	if (sub_info->path[0] == '\0')
 		goto out;