2 * kernel userspace event delivery
4 * Copyright (C) 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
5 * Copyright (C) 2004 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.
6 * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM, Inc. All rights reserved.
8 * Licensed under the GNU GPL v2.
11 * Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
12 * Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
13 * Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
14 * Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
17 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
18 #include <linux/socket.h>
19 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
20 #include <linux/netlink.h>
21 #include <linux/string.h>
22 #include <linux/kobject.h>
25 #define BUFFER_SIZE 2048 /* buffer for the variables */
26 #define NUM_ENVP 32 /* number of env pointers */
28 #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG)
30 char uevent_helper
[UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN
] = "/sbin/hotplug";
31 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sequence_lock
);
32 #if defined(CONFIG_NET)
33 static struct sock
*uevent_sock
;
36 static char *action_to_string(enum kobject_action action
)
61 * kobject_uevent_env - send an uevent with environmental data
63 * @action: action that is happening (usually KOBJ_MOVE)
64 * @kobj: struct kobject that the action is happening to
65 * @envp_ext: pointer to environmental data
67 * Returns 0 if kobject_uevent() is completed with success or the
68 * corresponding error when it fails.
70 int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject
*kobj
, enum kobject_action action
,
76 const char *action_string
;
77 const char *devpath
= NULL
;
78 const char *subsystem
;
79 struct kobject
*top_kobj
;
81 struct kset_uevent_ops
*uevent_ops
;
88 pr_debug("%s\n", __FUNCTION__
);
90 action_string
= action_to_string(action
);
92 pr_debug("kobject attempted to send uevent without action_string!\n");
96 /* search the kset we belong to */
98 if (!top_kobj
->kset
&& top_kobj
->parent
) {
100 top_kobj
= top_kobj
->parent
;
101 } while (!top_kobj
->kset
&& top_kobj
->parent
);
103 if (!top_kobj
->kset
) {
104 pr_debug("kobject attempted to send uevent without kset!\n");
108 kset
= top_kobj
->kset
;
109 uevent_ops
= kset
->uevent_ops
;
111 /* skip the event, if the filter returns zero. */
112 if (uevent_ops
&& uevent_ops
->filter
)
113 if (!uevent_ops
->filter(kset
, kobj
)) {
114 pr_debug("kobject filter function caused the event to drop!\n");
118 /* environment index */
119 envp
= kzalloc(NUM_ENVP
* sizeof (char *), GFP_KERNEL
);
123 /* environment values */
124 buffer
= kmalloc(BUFFER_SIZE
, GFP_KERNEL
);
130 /* complete object path */
131 devpath
= kobject_get_path(kobj
, GFP_KERNEL
);
137 /* originating subsystem */
138 if (uevent_ops
&& uevent_ops
->name
)
139 subsystem
= uevent_ops
->name(kset
, kobj
);
141 subsystem
= kobject_name(&kset
->kobj
);
143 /* event environemnt for helper process only */
144 envp
[i
++] = "HOME=/";
145 envp
[i
++] = "PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin";
149 envp
[i
++] = scratch
;
150 scratch
+= sprintf(scratch
, "ACTION=%s", action_string
) + 1;
151 envp
[i
++] = scratch
;
152 scratch
+= sprintf (scratch
, "DEVPATH=%s", devpath
) + 1;
153 envp
[i
++] = scratch
;
154 scratch
+= sprintf(scratch
, "SUBSYSTEM=%s", subsystem
) + 1;
155 for (j
= 0; envp_ext
&& envp_ext
[j
]; j
++)
156 envp
[i
++] = envp_ext
[j
];
157 /* just reserve the space, overwrite it after kset call has returned */
158 envp
[i
++] = seq_buff
= scratch
;
159 scratch
+= strlen("SEQNUM=18446744073709551616") + 1;
161 /* let the kset specific function add its stuff */
162 if (uevent_ops
&& uevent_ops
->uevent
) {
163 retval
= uevent_ops
->uevent(kset
, kobj
,
164 &envp
[i
], NUM_ENVP
- i
, scratch
,
165 BUFFER_SIZE
- (scratch
- buffer
));
167 pr_debug ("%s - uevent() returned %d\n",
168 __FUNCTION__
, retval
);
173 /* we will send an event, request a new sequence number */
174 spin_lock(&sequence_lock
);
175 seq
= ++uevent_seqnum
;
176 spin_unlock(&sequence_lock
);
177 sprintf(seq_buff
, "SEQNUM=%llu", (unsigned long long)seq
);
179 #if defined(CONFIG_NET)
180 /* send netlink message */
185 /* allocate message with the maximum possible size */
186 len
= strlen(action_string
) + strlen(devpath
) + 2;
187 skb
= alloc_skb(len
+ BUFFER_SIZE
, GFP_KERNEL
);
190 scratch
= skb_put(skb
, len
);
191 sprintf(scratch
, "%s@%s", action_string
, devpath
);
193 /* copy keys to our continuous event payload buffer */
194 for (i
= 2; envp
[i
]; i
++) {
195 len
= strlen(envp
[i
]) + 1;
196 scratch
= skb_put(skb
, len
);
197 strcpy(scratch
, envp
[i
]);
200 NETLINK_CB(skb
).dst_group
= 1;
201 netlink_broadcast(uevent_sock
, skb
, 0, 1, GFP_KERNEL
);
206 /* call uevent_helper, usually only enabled during early boot */
207 if (uevent_helper
[0]) {
210 argv
[0] = uevent_helper
;
211 argv
[1] = (char *)subsystem
;
213 call_usermodehelper (argv
[0], argv
, envp
, 0);
223 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_uevent_env
);
226 * kobject_uevent - notify userspace by ending an uevent
228 * @action: action that is happening (usually KOBJ_ADD and KOBJ_REMOVE)
229 * @kobj: struct kobject that the action is happening to
231 * Returns 0 if kobject_uevent() is completed with success or the
232 * corresponding error when it fails.
234 int kobject_uevent(struct kobject
*kobj
, enum kobject_action action
)
236 return kobject_uevent_env(kobj
, action
, NULL
);
239 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_uevent
);
242 * add_uevent_var - helper for creating event variables
243 * @envp: Pointer to table of environment variables, as passed into
245 * @num_envp: Number of environment variable slots available, as
246 * passed into uevent() method.
247 * @cur_index: Pointer to current index into @envp. It should be
248 * initialized to 0 before the first call to add_uevent_var(),
249 * and will be incremented on success.
250 * @buffer: Pointer to buffer for environment variables, as passed
251 * into uevent() method.
252 * @buffer_size: Length of @buffer, as passed into uevent() method.
253 * @cur_len: Pointer to current length of space used in @buffer.
254 * Should be initialized to 0 before the first call to
255 * add_uevent_var(), and will be incremented on success.
256 * @format: Format for creating environment variable (of the form
257 * "XXX=%x") for snprintf().
259 * Returns 0 if environment variable was added successfully or -ENOMEM
260 * if no space was available.
262 int add_uevent_var(char **envp
, int num_envp
, int *cur_index
,
263 char *buffer
, int buffer_size
, int *cur_len
,
264 const char *format
, ...)
269 * We check against num_envp - 1 to make sure there is at
270 * least one slot left after we return, since kobject_uevent()
271 * needs to set the last slot to NULL.
273 if (*cur_index
>= num_envp
- 1)
276 envp
[*cur_index
] = buffer
+ *cur_len
;
278 va_start(args
, format
);
279 *cur_len
+= vsnprintf(envp
[*cur_index
],
280 max(buffer_size
- *cur_len
, 0),
284 if (*cur_len
> buffer_size
)
290 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_uevent_var
);
292 #if defined(CONFIG_NET)
293 static int __init
kobject_uevent_init(void)
295 uevent_sock
= netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT
, 1, NULL
,
300 "kobject_uevent: unable to create netlink socket!\n");
307 postcore_initcall(kobject_uevent_init
);
310 #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG */