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Commit 3d366960 authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by David S. Miller
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[AF_UNIX] Initialise UNIX sockets before general device initcalls 



When drivers call request_module(), it tries to do something with UNIX
sockets and triggers a 'runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1' warning. Avoid
this by initialising AF_UNIX support earlier.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent c9c1014b

net/unix/af_unix.c

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@@ -2193,7 +2193,11 @@ static void __exit af_unix_exit(void) 
	unregister_pernet_subsys(&unix_net_ops);

}



module_init(af_unix_init);

/* Earlier than device_initcall() so that other drivers invoking

   request_module() don't end up in a loop when modprobe tries

   to use a UNIX socket. But later than subsys_initcall() because

   we depend on stuff initialised there */

fs_initcall(af_unix_init);

module_exit(af_unix_exit);



MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");