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authorYang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>2016-12-30 16:17:55 +0800
committerMister Oyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-07-04 11:51:34 +0200
commitbec5302846d55a609be9111a416234f7e2dce2ab (patch)
treeadd12880dd46f66dd345c8839d8ec4bc858723f9 /kernel
parent8a546a5ea21f6026595ce935c3bfb218879ce414 (diff)
futex: Move futex_init() to core_initcall
commit 25f71d1c3e98ef0e52371746220d66458eac75bc upstream. The UEVENT user mode helper is enabled before the initcalls are executed and is available when the root filesystem has been mounted. The user mode helper is triggered by device init calls and the executable might use the futex syscall. futex_init() is marked __initcall which maps to device_initcall, but there is no guarantee that futex_init() is invoked _before_ the first device init call which triggers the UEVENT user mode helper. If the user mode helper uses the futex syscall before futex_init() then the syscall crashes with a NULL pointer dereference because the futex subsystem has not been initialized yet. Move futex_init() to core_initcall so futexes are initialized before the root filesystem is mounted and the usermode helper becomes available. [ tglx: Rewrote changelog ] Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn Cc: jiang.zhengxiong@zte.com.cn Cc: zhong.weidong@zte.com.cn Cc: deng.huali@zte.com.cn Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483085875-6130-1-git-send-email-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index ede29d2fc..a26ce0f0b 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -2928,4 +2928,4 @@ static int __init futex_init(void)
return 0;
}
-__initcall(futex_init);
+core_initcall(futex_init);