2 kmod, the new module loader (replaces kerneld)
5 Reorganized not to be a daemon by Adam Richter, with guidance
8 Modified to avoid chroot and file sharing problems.
11 Limit the concurrent number of kmod modprobes to catch loops from
12 "modprobe needs a service that is in a module".
13 Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> December 1999
16 #define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
18 #include <linux/sched.h>
19 #include <linux/unistd.h>
20 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
22 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
25 modprobe_path is set via /proc/sys.
27 char modprobe_path
[256] = "/sbin/modprobe";
29 extern int max_threads
;
32 use_init_fs_context(void)
34 struct fs_struct
*our_fs
, *init_fs
;
37 * Make modprobe's fs context be a copy of init's.
39 * We cannot use the user's fs context, because it
40 * may have a different root than init.
41 * Since init was created with CLONE_FS, we can grab
42 * its fs context from "init_task".
44 * The fs context has to be a copy. If it is shared
45 * with init, then any chdir() call in modprobe will
46 * also affect init and the other threads sharing
47 * init_task's fs context.
49 * We created the exec_modprobe thread without CLONE_FS,
50 * so we can update the fields in our fs context freely.
55 init_fs
= init_task
.fs
;
56 our_fs
->umask
= init_fs
->umask
;
57 set_fs_root(our_fs
, init_fs
->rootmnt
, init_fs
->root
);
58 set_fs_pwd(our_fs
, init_fs
->pwdmnt
, init_fs
->pwd
);
59 if (our_fs
->altroot
) {
60 struct vfsmount
*mnt
= our_fs
->altrootmnt
;
61 struct dentry
*dentry
= our_fs
->altroot
;
62 our_fs
->altrootmnt
= NULL
;
63 our_fs
->altroot
= NULL
;
71 int exec_usermodehelper(char *program_path
, char *argv
[], char *envp
[])
78 use_init_fs_context();
80 /* Prevent parent user process from sending signals to child.
81 Otherwise, if the modprobe program does not exist, it might
82 be possible to get a user defined signal handler to execute
83 as the super user right after the execve fails if you time
84 the signal just right.
86 spin_lock_irq(¤t
->sigmask_lock
);
87 flush_signals(current
);
88 flush_signal_handlers(current
);
89 spin_unlock_irq(¤t
->sigmask_lock
);
91 for (i
= 0; i
< current
->files
->max_fds
; i
++ ) {
92 if (current
->files
->fd
[i
]) close(i
);
95 /* Drop the "current user" thing */
98 /* Give kmod all privileges.. */
99 current
->uid
= current
->euid
= current
->fsuid
= 0;
100 cap_set_full(current
->cap_inheritable
);
101 cap_set_full(current
->cap_effective
);
103 /* Allow execve args to be in kernel space. */
107 if (execve(program_path
, argv
, envp
) < 0)
112 static int exec_modprobe(void * module_name
)
114 static char * envp
[] = { "HOME=/", "TERM=linux", "PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin", NULL
};
115 char *argv
[] = { modprobe_path
, "-s", "-k", (char*)module_name
, NULL
};
118 ret
= exec_usermodehelper(modprobe_path
, argv
, envp
);
121 "kmod: failed to exec %s -s -k %s, errno = %d\n",
122 modprobe_path
, (char*) module_name
, errno
);
128 * request_module - try to load a kernel module
129 * @module_name: Name of module
131 * Load a module using the user mode module loader. The function returns
132 * zero on success or a negative errno code on failure. Note that a
133 * successful module load does not mean the module did not then unload
134 * and exit on an error of its own. Callers must check that the service
135 * they requested is now available not blindly invoke it.
137 * If module auto-loading support is disabled then this function
138 * becomes a no-operation.
141 int request_module(const char * module_name
)
147 static atomic_t kmod_concurrent
= ATOMIC_INIT(0);
148 #define MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT 50 /* Completely arbitrary value - KAO */
149 static int kmod_loop_msg
;
151 /* Don't allow request_module() before the root fs is mounted! */
152 if ( ! current
->fs
->root
) {
153 printk(KERN_ERR
"request_module[%s]: Root fs not mounted\n",
158 /* If modprobe needs a service that is in a module, we get a recursive
159 * loop. Limit the number of running kmod threads to max_threads/2 or
160 * MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT, whichever is the smaller. A cleaner method
161 * would be to run the parents of this process, counting how many times
162 * kmod was invoked. That would mean accessing the internals of the
163 * process tables to get the command line, proc_pid_cmdline is static
164 * and it is not worth changing the proc code just to handle this case.
168 if (i
> MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT
)
169 i
= MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT
;
170 atomic_inc(&kmod_concurrent
);
171 if (atomic_read(&kmod_concurrent
) > i
) {
172 if (kmod_loop_msg
++ < 5)
174 "kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped\n");
175 atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent
);
179 pid
= kernel_thread(exec_modprobe
, (void*) module_name
, 0);
181 printk(KERN_ERR
"request_module[%s]: fork failed, errno %d\n", module_name
, -pid
);
182 atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent
);
186 /* Block everything but SIGKILL/SIGSTOP */
187 spin_lock_irq(¤t
->sigmask_lock
);
188 tmpsig
= current
->blocked
;
189 siginitsetinv(¤t
->blocked
, sigmask(SIGKILL
) | sigmask(SIGSTOP
));
190 recalc_sigpending(current
);
191 spin_unlock_irq(¤t
->sigmask_lock
);
193 waitpid_result
= waitpid(pid
, NULL
, __WCLONE
);
194 atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent
);
196 /* Allow signals again.. */
197 spin_lock_irq(¤t
->sigmask_lock
);
198 current
->blocked
= tmpsig
;
199 recalc_sigpending(current
);
200 spin_unlock_irq(¤t
->sigmask_lock
);
202 if (waitpid_result
!= pid
) {
203 printk(KERN_ERR
"request_module[%s]: waitpid(%d,...) failed, errno %d\n",
204 module_name
, pid
, -waitpid_result
);