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Subject[PATCH] have sgi-gru driver 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>

---

drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Index: linux/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c 2008-11-21 11:44:02.000000000 -0600
+++ linux/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c 2008-11-21 13:40:08.000000000 -0600
@@ -678,7 +678,11 @@ struct vm_operations_struct gru_vm_ops =
.fault = gru_fault,
};

+#ifndef MODULE
+fs_initcall(gru_init);
+#else
module_init(gru_init);
+#endif
module_exit(gru_exit);

module_param(gru_options, ulong, 0644);

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