problem with "call_usermodehelper" function
Dear Experts,
I want to awake my program located at /folder/exe_prog from
one of the kernel module usbcore.ko (hub.c), on usb insertion event..
I have chnaged source file of hub.c (where it detects the usb event
plug-in new device)..
at there I made call to my prog "exe_prog" using
call_usermodehelper , as below...
/*-------- hub.c codes -----------------------*/
// my code inside hub.c
int ret = 0;
char *argv[] = {"/folder/exe_prog", "Hello1", "Hello2",NULL };
// two dummy args...
char *envp[] = {"HOME=/", "PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin", NULL };
ret = call_usermodehelper("/folder/exe_prog", argv, envp, 1);
if (ret != 0)
printk("error in call to usermodehelper: %i\n", ret);
else
printk("everything seems all right\n");
// end - my code inside hub.c
program body of exe_prog is as below
int main( int argc, char ** argv)
{
system("mkdir /home/tempdir");
}
When see the syslogs I can see that the function call to call_usermodehelper
returns 0. But it does not execute exe_prog at all.
When i manually run the exe_prog is generates directory in
the directory as it should do, but some how it is not getting
run from module.
What I expected to do is, when i insert USB device , then
my code (inside the hub.c) should run my prog exe_prog and create
a directory there.
Am I missing something???
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