From a144c6a6c924aa1da04dd77fb84b89927354fdff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 20:09:42 +0200 Subject: PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozen Some drivers erroneously use request_firmware() from their ->resume() (or ->thaw(), or ->restore()) callbacks, which is not going to work unless the firmware has been built in. This causes system resume to stall until the firmware-loading timeout expires, which makes users think that the resume has failed and reboot their machines unnecessarily. For this reason, make _request_firmware() print a warning and return immediately with error code if it has been called when tasks are frozen and it's impossible to start any new usermode helpers. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Valdis Kletnieks --- kernel/kmod.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c') diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index 9cd0591c96a2..9ab513bd0c3c 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -301,6 +301,15 @@ void usermodehelper_enable(void) usermodehelper_disabled = 0; } +/** + * usermodehelper_is_disabled - check if new helpers are allowed to be started + */ +bool usermodehelper_is_disabled(void) +{ + return usermodehelper_disabled; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usermodehelper_is_disabled); + static void helper_lock(void) { atomic_inc(&running_helpers); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b