Commit 026bde12 authored Dec 02, 2008 by Dean Nelson Committed by Linus Torvalds Dec 02, 2008

sgi-gru: call fs_initcall() if statically linked



If xpc.ko and gru.ko are both statically linked into the kernel, then
xpc_init() can get called before gru_init() and make a call to one of the
gru's exported functions before the gru has initialized itself. The end
result is a NULL dereference.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 7a0d7940

drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ struct vm_operations_struct gru_vm_ops = {
		.fault = gru_fault,
		};

		module_init(gru_init);
		fs_initcall(gru_init);
		module_exit(gru_exit);

		module_param(gru_options, ulong, 0644);