kasan: fix memory hotplug during boot
authorDavid Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Fri, 25 May 2018 21:48:11 +0000 (14:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Sat, 26 May 2018 01:12:11 +0000 (18:12 -0700)
Using module_init() is wrong.  E.g.  ACPI adds and onlines memory before
our memory notifier gets registered.

This makes sure that ACPI memory detected during boot up will not result
in a kernel crash.

Easily reproducible with QEMU, just specify a DIMM when starting up.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 786a8959912e ("kasan: disable memory hotplug")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/kasan/kasan.c

index 721e00837f0075393f1852eb9d2fade7e9c9fa78..f185455b34065d27efa2b6a90c9dd2c1dfe92ae9 100644 (file)
@@ -898,5 +898,5 @@ static int __init kasan_memhotplug_init(void)
        return 0;
 }
 
-module_init(kasan_memhotplug_init);
+core_initcall(kasan_memhotplug_init);
 #endif