Re: [PATCH] init/main.c: check for null pointer before calling initcall

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 14:22:45 EST


On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, David Daney wrote:

> On 10/27/2017 09:47 AM, Abderrahmane Benbachir wrote:
> > Simple check to prevent kernel panic when initcall does not exit
>
> Interesting, under what circumstances do you observe the panic?
>
> It would be best to include this information in the patch changelog.

device_initcall(NULL);

might do that, but then it rightfully crashes on boot.