/* $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_kmod.c,v 3.6 2001/10/31 22:50:30 tsi Exp $ */ #include #include #include #include #include #include "xf86_OSlib.h" #include "xf86.h" #define MODPROBE_PATH_FILE "/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe" #define MAX_PATH 1024 #if 0 /* XFree86 #defines execl to be the xf86execl() function which does * a fork AND exec. We don't want that. We want the regular, * standard execl(). */ #ifdef execl #undef execl #endif #endif /* * Load a Linux kernel module. * This is used by the DRI/DRM to load a DRM kernel module when * the X server starts. It could be used for other purposes in the future. * Input: * modName - name of the kernel module (Ex: "tdfx") * Return: * 0 for failure, 1 for success */ int xf86LoadKernelModule(const char *modName) { char mpPath[MAX_PATH] = ""; int fd = -1, status, n; pid_t pid; /* get the path to the modprobe program */ fd = open(MODPROBE_PATH_FILE, O_RDONLY); if (fd >= 0) { int count = read(fd, mpPath, MAX_PATH - 1); if (count <= 0) { mpPath[0] = 0; } else if (mpPath[count - 1] == '\n') { mpPath[count - 1] = 0; /* replaces \n with \0 */ } close(fd); /* if this worked, mpPath will be "/sbin/modprobe" or similar. */ } if (mpPath[0] == 0) { /* we failed to get the path from the system, use a default */ strcpy(mpPath, "/sbin/modprobe"); } /* now fork/exec the modprobe command */ /* * It would be good to capture stdout/stderr so that it can be directed * to the log file. modprobe errors currently are missing from the log * file. */ switch (pid = fork()) { case 0: /* child */ /* change real/effective user ID to 0/0 as we need to * preinstall agpgart module for some DRM modules */ if (setreuid(0,0)) { xf86Msg(X_WARNING,"LoadKernelModule: " "Setting of real/effective user Id to 0/0 failed"); } setenv("PATH","/sbin",1); n = execl(mpPath, "modprobe", modName, NULL); xf86Msg(X_WARNING,"LoadKernelModule %s\n",strerror(errno)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); /* if we get here the child's exec failed */ break; case -1: /* fork failed */ return 0; default: /* fork worked */ { /* XXX we loop over waitpid() because it sometimes fails on * the first attempt. Don't know why! */ int count = 0, p; do { p = waitpid(pid, &status, 0); } while (p == -1 && count++ < 4); if (p == -1) { return 0; } if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0) { return 1; /* success! */ } else { return 0; } } } /* never get here */ return 0; }