[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] exec: allow core_pipe recursion check to look for a value of 1 rather than 0 (v2)

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/29, Neil Horman wrote:
>
>  void do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
> ...
> -		if (call_usermodehelper_pipe(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
> -				&cprm.file)) {
> +		cprm.file = NULL;

it is already NULL,

> +		if (call_usermodehelper_fns(helper_argv[0], helper_argv, NULL,
> +					    UMH_WAIT_EXEC, umh_pipe_setup,
> +					    NULL, &cprm)) {
> +			if (cprm.file)
> +				filp_close(cprm.file, NULL);

Hmm. Looks like this change fixes the bug by accident.

Before this patch, I think we leak info->stdin if kernel_thread() fails
in __call_usermodehelper() pathes.



Completely off-topic, but I think __call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) is
buggy. if kernel_thread() failes it should do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo().
Also, UMH_WAIT_EXEC should set ->retval in this case.

Cough. And why call_usermodehelper_exec() has this strange ->path[0] == '\0'
check?

Oleg.