Possible bug in call_usermodehelper

[NITU Vlad]

Hello all,

I'm trying to execute a user-space binary from a IRQ context so I 
started form this module which execute the reboot command. If I adapt 
this code to execute command with parameters I see that it silently 
fail. I specify that I use 3.12.47 kernel version. When I started 
digging into the kernel I figured out that __call_usermodehelper(struct 
work_struct *work) try to retrieve back the subprocess_info structure 
using

struct subprocess_info *sub_info = container_of(work, struct 
subprocess_info, work);

I think that there is a problem with this retrieving because 
sub_info->argv now contains weird values:

   argv and envp in my module:

     argv[0] = "/usr/local/sbin/xl";
     argv[1] = "migrate";
     argv[2] = "ubuntu";
     argv[3] = "192.168.0.230";
     envp[0] = "HOME=/";
     envp[1] = "PWD=/";
     envp[2] = "PATH=/usr/local/sbin/xl";
     envp[3] = NULL;

   argv and envp in __call_usermodehelper

     argv[0] = 
\xffffff90\xffffff9e.\x02\x02\xffffff88\xffffffff\xffffffff\xffffff90\xffffff9e.\x02\x02\xffffff88\xffffffff\xffffffff\xffffff80\xffffffbc\n\t"\x02\xffffff88\xffffffff\xffffffff
     the others have similar values to argv[0]


Best regards,
Nitu Vlad-Tiberiu

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