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<entry>
<title>PM / Sleep: fix recovery during resuming from hibernation</title>
<updated>2015-02-02T09:05:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Imre Deak</name>
<email>imre.deak@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-24T17:29:10+00:00</published>
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commit 94fb823fcb4892614f57e59601bb9d4920f24711 upstream.

If a device's dev_pm_ops::freeze callback fails during the QUIESCE
phase, we don't rollback things correctly calling the thaw and complete
callbacks. This could leave some devices in a suspended state in case of
an error during resuming from hibernation.

Signed-off-by: Imre Deak &lt;imre.deak@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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commit 94fb823fcb4892614f57e59601bb9d4920f24711 upstream.

If a device's dev_pm_ops::freeze callback fails during the QUIESCE
phase, we don't rollback things correctly calling the thaw and complete
callbacks. This could leave some devices in a suspended state in case of
an error during resuming from hibernation.

Signed-off-by: Imre Deak &lt;imre.deak@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM suspend</title>
<updated>2015-02-02T09:04:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-20T16:12:32+00:00</published>
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commit 5695be142e203167e3cb515ef86a88424f3524eb upstream.

PM freezer relies on having all tasks frozen by the time devices are
getting frozen so that no task will touch them while they are getting
frozen. But OOM killer is allowed to kill an already frozen task in
order to handle OOM situtation. In order to protect from late wake ups
OOM killer is disabled after all tasks are frozen. This, however, still
keeps a window open when a killed task didn't manage to die by the time
freeze_processes finishes.

Reduce the race window by checking all tasks after OOM killer has been
disabled. This is still not race free completely unfortunately because
oom_killer_disable cannot stop an already ongoing OOM killer so a task
might still wake up from the fridge and get killed without
freeze_processes noticing. Full synchronization of OOM and freezer is,
however, too heavy weight for this highly unlikely case.

Introduce and check oom_kills counter which gets incremented early when
the allocator enters __alloc_pages_may_oom path and only check all the
tasks if the counter changes during the freezing attempt. The counter
is updated so early to reduce the race window since allocator checked
oom_killer_disabled which is set by PM-freezing code. A false positive
will push the PM-freezer into a slow path but that is not a big deal.

Changes since v1
- push the re-check loop out of freeze_processes into
  check_frozen_processes and invert the condition to make the code more
  readable as per Rafael

Fixes: f660daac474c6f (oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring)
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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commit 5695be142e203167e3cb515ef86a88424f3524eb upstream.

PM freezer relies on having all tasks frozen by the time devices are
getting frozen so that no task will touch them while they are getting
frozen. But OOM killer is allowed to kill an already frozen task in
order to handle OOM situtation. In order to protect from late wake ups
OOM killer is disabled after all tasks are frozen. This, however, still
keeps a window open when a killed task didn't manage to die by the time
freeze_processes finishes.

Reduce the race window by checking all tasks after OOM killer has been
disabled. This is still not race free completely unfortunately because
oom_killer_disable cannot stop an already ongoing OOM killer so a task
might still wake up from the fridge and get killed without
freeze_processes noticing. Full synchronization of OOM and freezer is,
however, too heavy weight for this highly unlikely case.

Introduce and check oom_kills counter which gets incremented early when
the allocator enters __alloc_pages_may_oom path and only check all the
tasks if the counter changes during the freezing attempt. The counter
is updated so early to reduce the race window since allocator checked
oom_killer_disabled which is set by PM-freezing code. A false positive
will push the PM-freezer into a slow path but that is not a big deal.

Changes since v1
- push the re-check loop out of freeze_processes into
  check_frozen_processes and invert the condition to make the code more
  readable as per Rafael

Fixes: f660daac474c6f (oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring)
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / sleep: Fix request_firmware() error at resume</title>
<updated>2014-07-28T14:06:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-15T06:51:27+00:00</published>
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commit 4320f6b1d9db4ca912c5eb6ecb328b2e090e1586 upstream.

The commit [247bc037: PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer
and request_firmware()] introduced the finer state control, but it
also leads to a new bug; for example, a bug report regarding the
firmware loading of intel BT device at suspend/resume:
  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873790

The root cause seems to be a small window between the process resume
and the clear of usermodehelper lock.  The request_firmware() function
checks the UMH lock and gives up when it's in UMH_DISABLE state.  This
is for avoiding the invalid  f/w loading during suspend/resume phase.
The problem is, however, that usermodehelper_enable() is called at the
end of thaw_processes().  Thus, a thawed process in between can kick
off the f/w loader code path (in this case, via btusb_setup_intel())
even before the call of usermodehelper_enable().  Then
usermodehelper_read_trylock() returns an error and request_firmware()
spews WARN_ON() in the end.

This oneliner patch fixes the issue just by setting to UMH_FREEZING
state again before restarting tasks, so that the call of
request_firmware() will be blocked until the end of this function
instead of returning an error.

Fixes: 247bc0374254 (PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer and request_firmware())
Link: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873790
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4320f6b1d9db4ca912c5eb6ecb328b2e090e1586 upstream.

The commit [247bc037: PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer
and request_firmware()] introduced the finer state control, but it
also leads to a new bug; for example, a bug report regarding the
firmware loading of intel BT device at suspend/resume:
  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873790

The root cause seems to be a small window between the process resume
and the clear of usermodehelper lock.  The request_firmware() function
checks the UMH lock and gives up when it's in UMH_DISABLE state.  This
is for avoiding the invalid  f/w loading during suspend/resume phase.
The problem is, however, that usermodehelper_enable() is called at the
end of thaw_processes().  Thus, a thawed process in between can kick
off the f/w loader code path (in this case, via btusb_setup_intel())
even before the call of usermodehelper_enable().  Then
usermodehelper_read_trylock() returns an error and request_firmware()
spews WARN_ON() in the end.

This oneliner patch fixes the issue just by setting to UMH_FREEZING
state again before restarting tasks, so that the call of
request_firmware() will be blocked until the end of this function
instead of returning an error.

Fixes: 247bc0374254 (PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer and request_firmware())
Link: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873790
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Hibernate/thaw fixes/improvements</title>
<updated>2014-02-20T18:45:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bojan Smojver</name>
<email>bojan@rexursive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-29T20:42:06+00:00</published>
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commit 5a21d489fd9541a4a66b9a500659abaca1b19a51 upstream.

 1. Do not allocate memory for buffers from emergency pools, unless
    absolutely required. Do not warn about and do not retry non-essential
    failed allocations.

 2. Do not check the amount of free pages left on every single page
    write, but wait until one map is completely populated and then check.

 3. Set maximum number of pages for read buffering consistently, instead
    of inadvertently depending on the size of the sector type.

 4. Fix copyright line, which I missed when I submitted the hibernation
    threading patch.

 5. Dispense with bit shifting arithmetic to improve readability.

 6. Really recalculate the number of pages required to be free after all
    allocations have been done.

 7. Fix calculation of pages required for read buffering. Only count in
    pages that do not belong to high memory.

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver &lt;bojan@rexursive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5a21d489fd9541a4a66b9a500659abaca1b19a51 upstream.

 1. Do not allocate memory for buffers from emergency pools, unless
    absolutely required. Do not warn about and do not retry non-essential
    failed allocations.

 2. Do not check the amount of free pages left on every single page
    write, but wait until one map is completely populated and then check.

 3. Set maximum number of pages for read buffering consistently, instead
    of inadvertently depending on the size of the sector type.

 4. Fix copyright line, which I missed when I submitted the hibernation
    threading patch.

 5. Dispense with bit shifting arithmetic to improve readability.

 6. Really recalculate the number of pages required to be free after all
    allocations have been done.

 7. Fix calculation of pages required for read buffering. Only count in
    pages that do not belong to high memory.

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver &lt;bojan@rexursive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / hibernate: Avoid overflow in hibernate_preallocate_memory()</title>
<updated>2013-12-04T18:50:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaron Lu</name>
<email>aaron.lu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-06T00:41:31+00:00</published>
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commit fd432b9f8c7c88428a4635b9f5a9c6e174df6e36 upstream.

When system has a lot of highmem (e.g. 16GiB using a 32 bits kernel),
the code to calculate how much memory we need to preallocate in
normal zone may cause overflow. As Leon has analysed:

 It looks that during computing 'alloc' variable there is overflow:
 alloc = (3943404 - 1970542) - 1978280 = -5418 (signed)
 And this function goes to err_out.

Fix this by avoiding that overflow.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60817
Reported-and-tested-by: Leon Drugi &lt;eyak@wp.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fd432b9f8c7c88428a4635b9f5a9c6e174df6e36 upstream.

When system has a lot of highmem (e.g. 16GiB using a 32 bits kernel),
the code to calculate how much memory we need to preallocate in
normal zone may cause overflow. As Leon has analysed:

 It looks that during computing 'alloc' variable there is overflow:
 alloc = (3943404 - 1970542) - 1978280 = -5418 (signed)
 And this function goes to err_out.

Fix this by avoiding that overflow.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60817
Reported-and-tested-by: Leon Drugi &lt;eyak@wp.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Disable function tracing during suspend/resume and hibernation, again</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T15:31:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-16T13:30:45+00:00</published>
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commit 443772d408a25af62498793f6f805ce3c559309a upstream.

If function tracing is enabled for some of the low-level suspend/resume
functions, it leads to triple fault during resume from suspend, ultimately
ending up in a reboot instead of a resume (or a total refusal to come out
of suspended state, on some machines).

This issue was explained in more detail in commit f42ac38c59e0a03d (ftrace:
disable tracing for suspend to ram). However, the changes made by that commit
got reverted by commit cbe2f5a6e84eebb (tracing: allow tracing of
suspend/resume &amp; hibernation code again). So, unfortunately since things are
not yet robust enough to allow tracing of low-level suspend/resume functions,
suspend/resume is still broken when ftrace is enabled.

So fix this by disabling function tracing during suspend/resume &amp; hibernation.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 443772d408a25af62498793f6f805ce3c559309a upstream.

If function tracing is enabled for some of the low-level suspend/resume
functions, it leads to triple fault during resume from suspend, ultimately
ending up in a reboot instead of a resume (or a total refusal to come out
of suspended state, on some machines).

This issue was explained in more detail in commit f42ac38c59e0a03d (ftrace:
disable tracing for suspend to ram). However, the changes made by that commit
got reverted by commit cbe2f5a6e84eebb (tracing: allow tracing of
suspend/resume &amp; hibernation code again). So, unfortunately since things are
not yet robust enough to allow tracing of low-level suspend/resume functions,
suspend/resume is still broken when ftrace is enabled.

So fix this by disabling function tracing during suspend/resume &amp; hibernation.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: fix the number of pages used for hibernate/thaw buffering</title>
<updated>2012-04-24T21:53:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bojan Smojver</name>
<email>bojan@rexursive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-24T21:53:28+00:00</published>
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Hibernation regression fix, since 3.2.

Calculate the number of required free pages based on non-high memory
pages only, because that is where the buffers will come from.

Commit 081a9d043c983f161b78fdc4671324d1342b86bc introduced a new buffer
page allocation logic during hibernation, in order to improve the
performance. The amount of pages allocated was calculated based on total
amount of pages available, although only non-high memory pages are
usable for this purpose. This caused hibernation code to attempt to over
allocate pages on platforms that have high memory, which led to hangs.

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver &lt;bojan@rexursive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@suse.de&gt;
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Hibernation regression fix, since 3.2.

Calculate the number of required free pages based on non-high memory
pages only, because that is where the buffers will come from.

Commit 081a9d043c983f161b78fdc4671324d1342b86bc introduced a new buffer
page allocation logic during hibernation, in order to improve the
performance. The amount of pages allocated was calculated based on total
amount of pages available, although only non-high memory pages are
usable for this purpose. This caused hibernation code to attempt to over
allocate pages on platforms that have high memory, which led to hangs.

Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver &lt;bojan@rexursive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / QoS: add pm_qos_update_request_timeout() API</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T21:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>MyungJoo Ham</name>
<email>myungjoo.ham@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T21:31:24+00:00</published>
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The new API, pm_qos_update_request_timeout() is to provide a timeout
with pm_qos_update_request.

For example, pm_qos_update_request_timeout(req, 100, 1000), means that
QoS request on req with value 100 will be active for 1000 microseconds.
After 1000 microseconds, the QoS request thru req is reset. If there
were another pm_qos_update_request(req, x) during the 1000 us, this
new request with value x will override as this is another request on the
same req handle. A new request on the same req handle will always
override the previous request whether it is the conventional request or
it is the new timeout request.

Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham &lt;myungjoo.ham@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park &lt;kyungmin.park@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Gross &lt;markgross@thegnar.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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The new API, pm_qos_update_request_timeout() is to provide a timeout
with pm_qos_update_request.

For example, pm_qos_update_request_timeout(req, 100, 1000), means that
QoS request on req with value 100 will be active for 1000 microseconds.
After 1000 microseconds, the QoS request thru req is reset. If there
were another pm_qos_update_request(req, x) during the 1000 us, this
new request with value x will override as this is another request on the
same req handle. A new request on the same req handle will always
override the previous request whether it is the conventional request or
it is the new timeout request.

Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham &lt;myungjoo.ham@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park &lt;kyungmin.park@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Gross &lt;markgross@thegnar.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / Sleep: Mitigate race between the freezer and request_firmware()</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T21:30:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T21:30:28+00:00</published>
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There is a race condition between the freezer and request_firmware()
such that if request_firmware() is run on one CPU and
freeze_processes() is run on another CPU and usermodehelper_disable()
called by it succeeds to grab umhelper_sem for writing before
usermodehelper_read_trylock() called from request_firmware()
acquires it for reading, the request_firmware() will fail and
trigger a WARN_ON() complaining that it was called at a wrong time.
However, in fact, it wasn't called at a wrong time and
freeze_processes() simply happened to be executed simultaneously.

To avoid this race, at least in some cases, modify
usermodehelper_read_trylock() so that it doesn't fail if the
freezing of tasks has just started and hasn't been completed yet.
Instead, during the freezing of tasks, it will try to freeze the
task that has called it so that it can wait until user space is
thawed without triggering the scary warning.

For this purpose, change usermodehelper_disabled so that it can
take three different values, UMH_ENABLED (0), UMH_FREEZING and
UMH_DISABLED.  The first one means that usermode helpers are
enabled, the last one means "hard disable" (i.e. the system is not
ready for usermode helpers to be used) and the second one
is reserved for the freezer.  Namely, when freeze_processes() is
started, it sets usermodehelper_disabled to UMH_FREEZING which
tells usermodehelper_read_trylock() that it shouldn't fail just
yet and should call try_to_freeze() if woken up and cannot
return immediately.  This way all freezable tasks that happen
to call request_firmware() right before freeze_processes() is
started and lose the race for umhelper_sem with it will be
frozen and will sleep until thaw_processes() unsets
usermodehelper_disabled.  [For the non-freezable callers of
request_firmware() the race for umhelper_sem against
freeze_processes() is unfortunately unavoidable.]

Reported-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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There is a race condition between the freezer and request_firmware()
such that if request_firmware() is run on one CPU and
freeze_processes() is run on another CPU and usermodehelper_disable()
called by it succeeds to grab umhelper_sem for writing before
usermodehelper_read_trylock() called from request_firmware()
acquires it for reading, the request_firmware() will fail and
trigger a WARN_ON() complaining that it was called at a wrong time.
However, in fact, it wasn't called at a wrong time and
freeze_processes() simply happened to be executed simultaneously.

To avoid this race, at least in some cases, modify
usermodehelper_read_trylock() so that it doesn't fail if the
freezing of tasks has just started and hasn't been completed yet.
Instead, during the freezing of tasks, it will try to freeze the
task that has called it so that it can wait until user space is
thawed without triggering the scary warning.

For this purpose, change usermodehelper_disabled so that it can
take three different values, UMH_ENABLED (0), UMH_FREEZING and
UMH_DISABLED.  The first one means that usermode helpers are
enabled, the last one means "hard disable" (i.e. the system is not
ready for usermode helpers to be used) and the second one
is reserved for the freezer.  Namely, when freeze_processes() is
started, it sets usermodehelper_disabled to UMH_FREEZING which
tells usermodehelper_read_trylock() that it shouldn't fail just
yet and should call try_to_freeze() if woken up and cannot
return immediately.  This way all freezable tasks that happen
to call request_firmware() right before freeze_processes() is
started and lose the race for umhelper_sem with it will be
frozen and will sleep until thaw_processes() unsets
usermodehelper_disabled.  [For the non-freezable callers of
request_firmware() the race for umhelper_sem against
freeze_processes() is unfortunately unavoidable.]

Reported-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<title>PM / Sleep: Move disabling of usermode helpers to the freezer</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T21:30:21+00:00</updated>
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<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
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<published>2012-03-28T21:30:21+00:00</published>
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The core suspend/hibernation code calls usermodehelper_disable() to
avoid race conditions between the freezer and the starting of
usermode helpers and each code path has to do that on its own.
However, it is always called right before freeze_processes()
and usermodehelper_enable() is always called right after
thaw_processes().  For this reason, to avoid code duplication and
to make the connection between usermodehelper_disable() and the
freezer more visible, make freeze_processes() call it and remove the
direct usermodehelper_disable() and usermodehelper_enable() calls
from all suspend/hibernation code paths.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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The core suspend/hibernation code calls usermodehelper_disable() to
avoid race conditions between the freezer and the starting of
usermode helpers and each code path has to do that on its own.
However, it is always called right before freeze_processes()
and usermodehelper_enable() is always called right after
thaw_processes().  For this reason, to avoid code duplication and
to make the connection between usermodehelper_disable() and the
freezer more visible, make freeze_processes() call it and remove the
direct usermodehelper_disable() and usermodehelper_enable() calls
from all suspend/hibernation code paths.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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