linux/kernel
Linus Torvalds 288d5abec8 Boot up with usermodehelper disabled
The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device
it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode
helper binary for all these events very early in the boot.

Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we
literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process
handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly
problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in
executing.

So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers
to make the kernel start out with them disabled.  We enable them when
we've at least initialized stuff a bit.

Problems related to an uninitialized

	init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex

reported by various people.

Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 22:03:29 -10:00
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debug Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb 2011-08-01 13:39:40 -10:00
events perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check 2011-07-21 20:41:55 +02:00
gcov gcov: disable CONSTRUCTORS for UML 2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
irq Merge branch 'imx/dt' into next/dt 2011-07-28 15:25:46 +00:00
power Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
time Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-07-22 16:52:18 -07:00
trace atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
Makefile kernel: prevent unnecessary rebuilding due to config_data.gz 2011-07-20 01:32:32 +02:00
acct.c
async.c
audit.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
audit.h
audit_tree.c audit_tree,rcu: Convert call_rcu(__put_tree) to kfree_rcu() 2011-07-20 14:10:11 -07:00
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 2011-07-27 19:26:38 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c
compat.c Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2011-07-30 00:08:53 -07:00
configs.c kernel/configs.c: include MODULE_*() when CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=n 2011-07-25 20:57:15 -07:00
cpu.c
cpuset.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c KVM: Steal time implementation 2011-07-14 12:59:14 +03:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl 2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c kernel/fork.c: fix a few coding style issues 2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c mm/futex: fix futex writes on archs with SW tracking of dirty & young 2011-07-25 20:57:11 -07:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c jump_label: Fix jump_label update for modules 2011-06-29 09:59:17 -04:00
kallsyms.c
kexec.c
kfifo.c
kmod.c Boot up with usermodehelper disabled 2011-08-03 22:03:29 -10:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Return -ENOENT if probe point doesn't exist 2011-07-15 15:11:47 -04:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
lockdep.c Merge branch 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-07-22 16:43:49 -07:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
module.c module: add /sys/module/<name>/uevent files 2011-07-24 22:06:04 +09:30
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c notifiers: sys: move reboot notifiers into reboot.h 2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
nsproxy.c make sure that nsproxy_cache is initialized early enough 2011-07-20 01:44:07 -04:00
padata.c
panic.c panic: panic=-1 for immediate reboot 2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
params.c module: add /sys/module/<name>/uevent files 2011-07-24 22:06:04 +09:30
pid.c rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check 2011-07-08 22:21:58 +02:00
pid_namespace.c
pm_qos_params.c plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist heads 2011-07-08 14:02:53 +02:00
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
profile.c
ptrace.c connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers 2011-07-18 21:38:33 +02:00
range.c
rcupdate.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
rcutiny.c
rcutiny_plugin.h
rcutorture.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
rcutree.c rcu: Prevent RCU callbacks from executing before scheduler initialized 2011-07-13 08:17:56 -07:00
rcutree.h
rcutree_plugin.h softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity 2011-07-20 10:50:12 -07:00
rcutree_trace.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c resources: Add lookup_resource() 2011-07-30 21:21:39 +02:00
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist heads 2011-07-08 14:02:53 +02:00
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
sched.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
sched_autogroup.c
sched_autogroup.h sched: Skip autogroup when looking for all rt sched groups 2011-07-01 10:39:08 +02:00
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c sched: Cleanup duplicate local variable in [enqueue|dequeue]_task_fair 2011-07-22 12:47:22 +02:00
sched_features.h Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2011-07-24 09:07:03 -07:00
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c sched: Skip autogroup when looking for all rt sched groups 2011-07-01 10:39:08 +02:00
sched_stats.h
sched_stoptask.c
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: sys_ssetmask/sys_rt_sigsuspend should use set_current_blocked() 2011-07-27 12:53:36 -07:00
smp.c
softirq.c softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity 2011-07-20 10:50:12 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
sys.c notifiers: sys: move reboot notifiers into reboot.h 2011-07-25 20:57:14 -07:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c sysctl,rcu: Convert call_rcu(free_head) to kfree 2011-07-20 14:10:18 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl_check.c
taskstats.c taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listeners 2011-08-03 14:25:20 -10:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
wait.c
watchdog.c perf, x86: P4 PMU - Introduce event alias feature 2011-07-14 17:25:04 -04:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2011-07-22 15:07:15 -07:00
workqueue_sched.h