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| author | Ed Swierk <eswierk@arastra.com> | 2006-09-25 16:25:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-25 17:38:36 -0700 |
| commit | 1cc5f7142eca352109895fe20b1fc6405dd17727 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c6b4b3204f06317c830457e091ff2c83272ea09 /kernel/module.c | |
| parent | bfa0e9a07cd31f3858239dbc93011b82780acf4b (diff) | |
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[PATCH] load_module: no BUG if module_subsys uninitialized
Invoking load_module() before param_sysfs_init() is called crashes in
mod_sysfs_setup(), since the kset in module_subsys is not initialized yet.
In my case, net-pf-1 is getting modprobed as a result of hotplug trying to
create a UNIX socket. Calls to hotplug begin after the topology_init
initcall.
Another patch for the same symptom (module_subsys-initialize-earlier.patch)
moves param_sysfs_init() to the subsys initcalls, but this is still not
early enough in the boot process in some cases. In particular,
topology_init() causes /sbin/hotplug to run, which requests net-pf-1 (the
UNIX socket protocol) which can be compiled as a module. Moving
param_sysfs_init() to the postcore initcalls fixes this particular race,
but there might well be other cases where a usermodehelper causes a module
to load earlier still.
The patch makes load_module() return an error rather than crashing the
kernel if invoked before module_subsys is initialized.
Cc: Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 2a19cd47c046..b7fe6e840963 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1054,6 +1054,12 @@ static int mod_sysfs_setup(struct module *mod, { int err; + if (!module_subsys.kset.subsys) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: module_subsys not initialized\n", + mod->name); + err = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } memset(&mod->mkobj.kobj, 0, sizeof(mod->mkobj.kobj)); err = kobject_set_name(&mod->mkobj.kobj, "%s", mod->name); if (err) |