Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:42:46 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] {RFC} kmod.c: Add new call_usermodehelper_timeout()
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BTW,

On 03/22, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> In any case. I do not know why do we need timeout, but this is
> orthogonal to KILLABLE. Please redo your patches on top of -mm
> tree? Please note that in this case the change becomes trivial.

I have found 1-3 on marc.info, they look fine.

But 2/4 is not exactly correct, it forgets to do argv_free() if
call_usermodehelper_fns() returns -ENOMEM. And I guess you forgot
to remove the unused "struct subprocess_info *info".

Oleg.