[RFC PATCH v5 0/7] Another attempt at contained helper execution
Following Eric's comments and in light of the most recent nfs and keys patches here is yet another attempt at the basis of contained usermode helper execution. Initially I thought that creating threads to be used when executing a helper wouldn't be feasible because the number of threads would be far too large but the recent nfs and keys patches make me think that's probably not the case. There's more work to do on this, namely identifying already existing threads for a requested environment, error handling for environments that have gone away due to summary execution and similar. But I'd like to get feedback as to whether I'm on the right track and what I might be missing before spending more time on it. --- Ian Kent (7): kmod - add workqueue service thread store kmod - teach usermodehelper to use service workqueues nfsd - use service thread if not executing in init namespace nfs - cache_lib use service thread if not executing in init namespace nfs - objlayout use service thread if not executing in init namespace KEYS - use correct memory allocation flag in call_usermodehelper_keys() KEYS: exec request key within service thread of key creator fs/nfs/cache_lib.c |7 + fs/nfs/objlayout/objlayout.c | 14 +++ fs/nfsd/netns.h |3 + fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c| 48 ++--- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c |6 + include/linux/key.h |3 + include/linux/kmod.h |8 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h |2 kernel/kmod.c| 217 -- net/sunrpc/cache.c |5 + security/keys/gc.c |2 security/keys/key.c |5 + security/keys/request_key.c | 38 ++- 13 files changed, 323 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) -- Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[RFC PATCH v5 0/7] Another attempt at contained helper execution
Following Eric's comments and in light of the most recent nfs and keys patches here is yet another attempt at the basis of contained usermode helper execution. Initially I thought that creating threads to be used when executing a helper wouldn't be feasible because the number of threads would be far too large but the recent nfs and keys patches make me think that's probably not the case. There's more work to do on this, namely identifying already existing threads for a requested environment, error handling for environments that have gone away due to summary execution and similar. But I'd like to get feedback as to whether I'm on the right track and what I might be missing before spending more time on it. --- Ian Kent (7): kmod - add workqueue service thread store kmod - teach usermodehelper to use service workqueues nfsd - use service thread if not executing in init namespace nfs - cache_lib use service thread if not executing in init namespace nfs - objlayout use service thread if not executing in init namespace KEYS - use correct memory allocation flag in call_usermodehelper_keys() KEYS: exec request key within service thread of key creator fs/nfs/cache_lib.c |7 + fs/nfs/objlayout/objlayout.c | 14 +++ fs/nfsd/netns.h |3 + fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c| 48 ++--- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c |6 + include/linux/key.h |3 + include/linux/kmod.h |8 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h |2 kernel/kmod.c| 217 -- net/sunrpc/cache.c |5 + security/keys/gc.c |2 security/keys/key.c |5 + security/keys/request_key.c | 38 ++- 13 files changed, 323 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) -- Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
