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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2020-06-01 20:26:07 +0200
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2020-06-01 20:26:07 +0200
commit7318234c8d7c0f209f993ee46a7ea148efdb28b9 (patch)
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Merge tag 'asoc-v5.8' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus
ASoC: Updates for v5.8 This has been another very active release with a bunch of new drivers, lots of fixes everywhere and continued core improvements from Morimoto-san: - Lots of core cleanups and refactorings from Morimoto-san, factoring out common operations and making the card abstraction more solid. - Continued work on cleaning up and improving the Intel drivers, along with some new platform support for them. - Fixes to make the Marvell SSPA driver work upstream. - Support for AMD Renoir ACP, Dialog DA7212, Freescale EASRC and i.MX8M, Intel Elkhard Lake, Maxim MAX98390, Nuvoton NAU8812 and NAU8814 and Realtek RT1016.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/umh.c')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/umh.c b/kernel/umh.c
index 7f255b5a8845..3474d6aa55d8 100644
--- a/kernel/umh.c
+++ b/kernel/umh.c
@@ -475,6 +475,12 @@ static void umh_clean_and_save_pid(struct subprocess_info *info)
{
struct umh_info *umh_info = info->data;
+ /* cleanup if umh_pipe_setup() was successful but exec failed */
+ if (info->pid && info->retval) {
+ fput(umh_info->pipe_to_umh);
+ fput(umh_info->pipe_from_umh);
+ }
+
argv_free(info->argv);
umh_info->pid = info->pid;
}
@@ -544,6 +550,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fork_usermode_blob);
* Runs a user-space application. The application is started
* asynchronously if wait is not set, and runs as a child of system workqueues.
* (ie. it runs with full root capabilities and optimized affinity).
+ *
+ * Note: successful return value does not guarantee the helper was called at
+ * all. You can't rely on sub_info->{init,cleanup} being called even for
+ * UMH_WAIT_* wait modes as STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH="" turns all helpers
+ * into a successful no-op.
*/
int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait)
{