[PATCH 2/3] kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Tue Jan 14 2014 - 15:49:02 EST


Code that is obj-y (always built-in) or dependent on a bool Kconfig
(built-in or absent) can never be modular. So using module_init as
an alias for __initcall can be somewhat misleading.

Fix these up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd
have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
would be a worse thing.

The audit targets the following module_init users for change:
kernel/user.c obj-y
kernel/kexec.c bool KEXEC (one instance per arch)
kernel/profile.c bool PROFILING
kernel/hung_task.c bool DETECT_HUNG_TASK
kernel/sched/stats.c bool SCHEDSTATS
kernel/user_namespace.c bool USER_NS

Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
of the priority categorized subgroups. As __initcall gets
mapped onto device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which
makes sense for these files) will thus change this registration
from level 6-device to level 4-subsys (i.e. slightly earlier).
However no observable impact of that difference has been observed
during testing.

Also, two instances of missing ";" at EOL are fixed in kexec.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/hung_task.c | 3 +--
kernel/kexec.c | 4 ++--
kernel/profile.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched/stats.c | 2 +-
kernel/user.c | 3 +--
kernel/user_namespace.c | 2 +-
6 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/hung_task.c b/kernel/hung_task.c
index 9328b80eaf14..7899ee9dd212 100644
--- a/kernel/hung_task.c
+++ b/kernel/hung_task.c
@@ -244,5 +244,4 @@ static int __init hung_task_init(void)

return 0;
}
-
-module_init(hung_task_init);
+subsys_initcall(hung_task_init);
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 9c970167e402..418f069b0314 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ static int __init crash_notes_memory_init(void)
}
return 0;
}
-module_init(crash_notes_memory_init)
+subsys_initcall(crash_notes_memory_init);


/*
@@ -1628,7 +1628,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
return 0;
}

-module_init(crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init)
+subsys_initcall(crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init);

/*
* Move into place and start executing a preloaded standalone
diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c
index 6631e1ef55ab..b37576b22acc 100644
--- a/kernel/profile.c
+++ b/kernel/profile.c
@@ -604,5 +604,5 @@ int __ref create_proc_profile(void) /* false positive from hotcpu_notifier */
hotcpu_notifier(profile_cpu_callback, 0);
return 0;
}
-module_init(create_proc_profile);
+subsys_initcall(create_proc_profile);
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
diff --git a/kernel/sched/stats.c b/kernel/sched/stats.c
index da98af347e8b..a476bea17fbc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/stats.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/stats.c
@@ -142,4 +142,4 @@ static int __init proc_schedstat_init(void)
proc_create("schedstat", 0, NULL, &proc_schedstat_operations);
return 0;
}
-module_init(proc_schedstat_init);
+subsys_initcall(proc_schedstat_init);
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index c006131beb77..294fc6a94168 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -222,5 +222,4 @@ static int __init uid_cache_init(void)

return 0;
}
-
-module_init(uid_cache_init);
+subsys_initcall(uid_cache_init);
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 240fb62cf394..4f211868e6a2 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -902,4 +902,4 @@ static __init int user_namespaces_init(void)
user_ns_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(user_namespace, SLAB_PANIC);
return 0;
}
-module_init(user_namespaces_init);
+subsys_initcall(user_namespaces_init);
--
1.8.5.2

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