. In order to avoid deadlock, as a for-now and easy-to-backport solution, do not try to call wait_for_completion() in call_usermodehelper_exec() if the worker thread was created by khelper thread with CLONE_VFORK flag. Future and fundamental solution might be replacing singleton khelper thread with some workqueue so that recursive calls up to max_active dependency loop can be handled without deadlock. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment to kmod_thread_locker] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Arjan van de Ven Acked-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds £#