Re: [PATCH] Revert "kmod: fix race in usermodehelper code"

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> 
> The pach is wrong IMHO. UMH_WAIT_EXEC is called with VFORK what ensures
> that the child finishes prior returing back to the parent. No race. The patch
> makes it even worse because it does the thing it claims not do:
> - It calls ->complete() on UMH_WAIT_EXEC
> - the complete() callback may de-allocated subinfo

Yeah, I think you're right. That commit is bogus. Thanks for noticing.

		Linus
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