Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:37:46 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] umh: Add command line to user mode helpers | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Olivier Brunel <jjk@jjacky.com> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 19:39:56 +0200
> User mode helpers were spawned without a command line, and because > an empty command line is used by many tools to identify processes as > kernel threads, this could cause some issues. > > Notably during killing spree on shutdown, since such helper would then > be skipped (i.e. not killed) which would result in the process remaining > alive, and thus preventing unmouting of the rootfs (as experienced with > the bpfilter umh). > > Fixes: 449325b52b7a ("umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper") > Signed-off-by: Olivier Brunel <jjk@jjacky.com>
Applied.
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