From: Ian Kent <[email protected]>

When call_usermodehelper_keys() is called it assumes it won't be called
with the flag UMH_NO_WAIT. Currently that's always the case.

Change this to check the flag and use the correct kernel memory allocation
flag to guard against future changes.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Coddington <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
---
 security/keys/request_key.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key.c b/security/keys/request_key.c
index 486ef6f..e865f9f 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key.c
@@ -76,8 +76,10 @@ static int call_usermodehelper_keys(char *path, char **argv, 
char **envp,
                                        struct key *session_keyring, int wait)
 {
        struct subprocess_info *info;
+       unsigned int gfp_mask = (wait & UMH_NO_WAIT) ?
+                                       GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
 
-       info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, GFP_KERNEL,
+       info = call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp, gfp_mask,
                                          umh_keys_init, umh_keys_cleanup,
                                          session_keyring);
        if (!info)

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