From: David Woodhouse Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:59:25 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [AF_UNIX] Initialise UNIX sockets before general device initcalls X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc1~95^2~72 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3d36696024499aef19dbf24a781e91a24fbbe4af;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git [AF_UNIX] Initialise UNIX sockets before general device initcalls When drivers call request_module(), it tries to do something with UNIX sockets and triggers a 'runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1' warning. Avoid this by initialising AF_UNIX support earlier. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c index 2851d0d..63ed69f 100644 --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c @@ -2193,7 +2193,11 @@ static void __exit af_unix_exit(void) unregister_pernet_subsys(&unix_net_ops); } -module_init(af_unix_init); +/* Earlier than device_initcall() so that other drivers invoking + request_module() don't end up in a loop when modprobe tries + to use a UNIX socket. But later than subsys_initcall() because + we depend on stuff initialised there */ +fs_initcall(af_unix_init); module_exit(af_unix_exit); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");