On 05/10, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 05/10, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> >
> > -char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe -q --";
> > +char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = CONFIG_DEFAULT_MODULE_LOAD_BIN;
>
> But even after 1/3 and 2/3 this can break free_modprobe_argv() ?
> It assumes that argv[3] is module_name.

I'd suggest the patch below instead of 1 + 2. We can simply change
call_modprobe() to use kasprintf() + argv_split().

Oleg.

 kmod.c |   38 ++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

--- x/kernel/kmod.c
+++ x/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -64,20 +64,16 @@ static DECLARE_RWSEM(umhelper_sem);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 
-/*
-       modprobe_path is set via /proc/sys.
-*/
-char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe";
+/* modprobe_path is set via /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe */
+char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe -q --";
 
 static void free_modprobe_argv(struct subprocess_info *info)
 {
-       kfree(info->argv[3]); /* check call_modprobe() */
-       kfree(info->argv);
+       argv_free(info->argv);
 }
 
 static int call_modprobe(char *module_name, int wait)
 {
-       struct subprocess_info *info;
        static char *envp[] = {
                "HOME=/",
                "TERM=linux",
@@ -85,31 +81,29 @@ static int call_modprobe(char *module_na
                NULL
        };
 
-       char **argv = kmalloc(sizeof(char *[5]), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!argv)
-               goto out;
+       struct subprocess_info *info;
+       char **argv;
+       char *args;
 
-       module_name = kstrdup(module_name, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!module_name)
-               goto free_argv;
+       args = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s %s", modprobe_path, module_name);
+       if (!args)
+               goto out;
 
-       argv[0] = modprobe_path;
-       argv[1] = "-q";
-       argv[2] = "--";
-       argv[3] = module_name;  /* check free_modprobe_argv() */
-       argv[4] = NULL;
+       argv = argv_split(GFP_KERNEL, args, NULL);
+       if (!argv)
+               goto free_args;
 
        info = call_usermodehelper_setup(modprobe_path, argv, envp, GFP_KERNEL,
                                         NULL, free_modprobe_argv, NULL);
        if (!info)
-               goto free_module_name;
+               goto free_argv;
 
        return call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait | UMH_KILLABLE);
 
-free_module_name:
-       kfree(module_name);
 free_argv:
-       kfree(argv);
+       argv_free(argv);
+free_args:
+       kfree(args);
 out:
        return -ENOMEM;
 }

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