Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent
On recent systems, calls to /sbin/modprobe are handled by udev depending
on the kind of device the kernel has discovered. This patch creates an
uevent for the kernels internal request_module(), to let udev take control
over the request, instead of forking the binary directly by the kernel.
The direct execution of /sbin/modprobe can be disabled by setting:
/sys/module/kmod/mod_request_helper (/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe)
to an empty string, the same way /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is disabled on an
udev system.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 8a94e05..225501f 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -653,20 +653,11 @@
mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
}
-asmlinkage long
-sys_delete_module(const char __user *name_user, unsigned int flags)
+int delete_module(const char *name, unsigned int flags)
{
struct module *mod;
- char name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
int ret, forced = 0;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE))
- return -EPERM;
-
- if (strncpy_from_user(name, name_user, MODULE_NAME_LEN-1) < 0)
- return -EFAULT;
- name[MODULE_NAME_LEN-1] = '\0';
-
if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&module_mutex) != 0)
return -EINTR;
@@ -727,6 +718,21 @@
return ret;
}
+asmlinkage long
+sys_delete_module(const char __user *name_user, unsigned int flags)
+{
+ char name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
+
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ if (strncpy_from_user(name, name_user, MODULE_NAME_LEN-1) < 0)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ name[MODULE_NAME_LEN-1] = '\0';
+
+ return delete_module(name, flags);
+}
+
static void print_unload_info(struct seq_file *m, struct module *mod)
{
struct module_use *use;