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
)
63 * kobject_uevent - notify userspace by ending an uevent
65 * @action: action that is happening (usually KOBJ_ADD and KOBJ_REMOVE)
66 * @kobj: struct kobject that the action is happening to
68 void kobject_uevent(struct kobject
*kobj
, enum kobject_action action
)
73 const char *action_string
;
74 const char *devpath
= NULL
;
75 const char *subsystem
;
76 struct kobject
*top_kobj
;
78 struct kset_uevent_ops
*uevent_ops
;
84 pr_debug("%s\n", __FUNCTION__
);
86 action_string
= action_to_string(action
);
90 /* search the kset we belong to */
92 if (!top_kobj
->kset
&& top_kobj
->parent
) {
94 top_kobj
= top_kobj
->parent
;
95 } while (!top_kobj
->kset
&& top_kobj
->parent
);
100 kset
= top_kobj
->kset
;
101 uevent_ops
= kset
->uevent_ops
;
103 /* skip the event, if the filter returns zero. */
104 if (uevent_ops
&& uevent_ops
->filter
)
105 if (!uevent_ops
->filter(kset
, kobj
))
108 /* environment index */
109 envp
= kzalloc(NUM_ENVP
* sizeof (char *), GFP_KERNEL
);
113 /* environment values */
114 buffer
= kmalloc(BUFFER_SIZE
, GFP_KERNEL
);
118 /* complete object path */
119 devpath
= kobject_get_path(kobj
, GFP_KERNEL
);
123 /* originating subsystem */
124 if (uevent_ops
&& uevent_ops
->name
)
125 subsystem
= uevent_ops
->name(kset
, kobj
);
127 subsystem
= kobject_name(&kset
->kobj
);
129 /* event environemnt for helper process only */
130 envp
[i
++] = "HOME=/";
131 envp
[i
++] = "PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin";
135 envp
[i
++] = scratch
;
136 scratch
+= sprintf(scratch
, "ACTION=%s", action_string
) + 1;
137 envp
[i
++] = scratch
;
138 scratch
+= sprintf (scratch
, "DEVPATH=%s", devpath
) + 1;
139 envp
[i
++] = scratch
;
140 scratch
+= sprintf(scratch
, "SUBSYSTEM=%s", subsystem
) + 1;
142 /* just reserve the space, overwrite it after kset call has returned */
143 envp
[i
++] = seq_buff
= scratch
;
144 scratch
+= strlen("SEQNUM=18446744073709551616") + 1;
146 /* let the kset specific function add its stuff */
147 if (uevent_ops
&& uevent_ops
->uevent
) {
148 retval
= uevent_ops
->uevent(kset
, kobj
,
149 &envp
[i
], NUM_ENVP
- i
, scratch
,
150 BUFFER_SIZE
- (scratch
- buffer
));
152 pr_debug ("%s - uevent() returned %d\n",
153 __FUNCTION__
, retval
);
158 /* we will send an event, request a new sequence number */
159 spin_lock(&sequence_lock
);
160 seq
= ++uevent_seqnum
;
161 spin_unlock(&sequence_lock
);
162 sprintf(seq_buff
, "SEQNUM=%llu", (unsigned long long)seq
);
164 #if defined(CONFIG_NET)
165 /* send netlink message */
170 /* allocate message with the maximum possible size */
171 len
= strlen(action_string
) + strlen(devpath
) + 2;
172 skb
= alloc_skb(len
+ BUFFER_SIZE
, GFP_KERNEL
);
175 scratch
= skb_put(skb
, len
);
176 sprintf(scratch
, "%s@%s", action_string
, devpath
);
178 /* copy keys to our continuous event payload buffer */
179 for (i
= 2; envp
[i
]; i
++) {
180 len
= strlen(envp
[i
]) + 1;
181 scratch
= skb_put(skb
, len
);
182 strcpy(scratch
, envp
[i
]);
185 NETLINK_CB(skb
).dst_group
= 1;
186 netlink_broadcast(uevent_sock
, skb
, 0, 1, GFP_KERNEL
);
191 /* call uevent_helper, usually only enabled during early boot */
192 if (uevent_helper
[0]) {
195 argv
[0] = uevent_helper
;
196 argv
[1] = (char *)subsystem
;
198 call_usermodehelper (argv
[0], argv
, envp
, 0);
207 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_uevent
);
210 * add_uevent_var - helper for creating event variables
211 * @envp: Pointer to table of environment variables, as passed into
213 * @num_envp: Number of environment variable slots available, as
214 * passed into uevent() method.
215 * @cur_index: Pointer to current index into @envp. It should be
216 * initialized to 0 before the first call to add_uevent_var(),
217 * and will be incremented on success.
218 * @buffer: Pointer to buffer for environment variables, as passed
219 * into uevent() method.
220 * @buffer_size: Length of @buffer, as passed into uevent() method.
221 * @cur_len: Pointer to current length of space used in @buffer.
222 * Should be initialized to 0 before the first call to
223 * add_uevent_var(), and will be incremented on success.
224 * @format: Format for creating environment variable (of the form
225 * "XXX=%x") for snprintf().
227 * Returns 0 if environment variable was added successfully or -ENOMEM
228 * if no space was available.
230 int add_uevent_var(char **envp
, int num_envp
, int *cur_index
,
231 char *buffer
, int buffer_size
, int *cur_len
,
232 const char *format
, ...)
237 * We check against num_envp - 1 to make sure there is at
238 * least one slot left after we return, since kobject_uevent()
239 * needs to set the last slot to NULL.
241 if (*cur_index
>= num_envp
- 1)
244 envp
[*cur_index
] = buffer
+ *cur_len
;
246 va_start(args
, format
);
247 *cur_len
+= vsnprintf(envp
[*cur_index
],
248 max(buffer_size
- *cur_len
, 0),
252 if (*cur_len
> buffer_size
)
258 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_uevent_var
);
260 #if defined(CONFIG_NET)
261 static int __init
kobject_uevent_init(void)
263 uevent_sock
= netlink_kernel_create(NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT
, 1, NULL
,
268 "kobject_uevent: unable to create netlink socket!\n");
275 postcore_initcall(kobject_uevent_init
);
278 #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG */