[PATCH 4.16 036/272] kasan: fix memory hotplug during boot

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 28 2018 - 07:05:41 EST


4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3f1959721558a976aaf9c2024d5bc884e6411bf7 upstream.

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/20180522100756.18478-3-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 786a8959912e ("kasan: disable memory hotplug")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
mm/kasan/kasan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
@@ -897,5 +897,5 @@ static int __init kasan_memhotplug_init(
return 0;
}

-module_init(kasan_memhotplug_init);
+core_initcall(kasan_memhotplug_init);
#endif