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authorMichael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>2014-04-10 14:09:31 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-04-25 12:00:49 -0700
commit86d56134f1b67d0c18025ba5cade95c048ed528d (patch)
treecaa4346965954ded259784e3b68af159e3161aeb /lib/kobject_uevent.c
parentd911d98748018f7c8facc035ba39c30f5cce6f9c (diff)
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kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.
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 <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject_uevent.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject_uevent.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 4e3bd71..9ebf9e2 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
u64 uevent_seqnum;
+#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
char uevent_helper[UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN] = CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH;
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_NET
struct uevent_sock {
struct list_head list;
@@ -109,6 +111,7 @@ static int kobj_bcast_filter(struct sock *dsk, struct sk_buff *skb, void *data)
}
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
static int kobj_usermode_filter(struct kobject *kobj)
{
const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *ops;
@@ -147,6 +150,7 @@ static void cleanup_uevent_env(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
kfree(info->data);
}
+#endif
/**
* kobject_uevent_env - send an uevent with environmental data
@@ -323,6 +327,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
#endif
mutex_unlock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
+#ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
/* call uevent_helper, usually only enabled during early boot */
if (uevent_helper[0] && !kobj_usermode_filter(kobj)) {
struct subprocess_info *info;
@@ -347,6 +352,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
env = NULL; /* freed by cleanup_uevent_env */
}
}
+#endif
exit:
kfree(devpath);
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