From 1be01d4a57142ded23bdb9e0c8d9369e693b26cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:13:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default
Since commit 7934779a69f1184f ("Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by
default"), the help text for the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb says
"This should not be used today [...] creates a high system load, or
[...] out-of-memory situations during bootup". The rationale for this
was that no recent mainstream system used this anymore (in 2010!).
A few years later, the complete uevent helper support was made optional
in commit 86d56134f1b67d0c ("kobject: Make support for uevent_helper
optional."). However, if was still left enabled by default, to support
ancient userland.
Time passed by, and nothing should use this anymore, so it can be
disabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/base/Kconfig | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 059700ea35217..9fb2c4c92340b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ menu "Generic Driver Options"
config UEVENT_HELPER
bool "Support for uevent helper"
- default y
help
The uevent helper program is forked by the kernel for
every uevent.
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