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AFS: Fix the module init error handling
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:26:48 +0000 (17:26 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:23:37 +0000 (14:23 -0700)
commitf686b6cef954a85d32d7b06769ba4b006a26dc9b
treecb27a80199e4730a98ed6fc93411d52df0001d37
parentb9b444a223c51cc7cc2561d9cb4a5079a0d3ecdc
AFS: Fix the module init error handling

Fix the module init error handling.  There are a bunch of goto labels for
aborting the init procedure at different points and just undoing what needs
undoing - they aren't all in the right places, however.

This can lead to an oops like the following:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
IP: [<ffffffff81042a31>] destroy_workqueue+0x17/0xc0
...
Modules linked in: kafs(+) dns_resolver rxkad af_rxrpc fscache

Pid: 2171, comm: insmod Not tainted 2.6.35-cachefs+ #319 DG965RY/
...
Process insmod (pid: 2171, threadinfo ffff88003ca6a000, task ffff88003dcc3050)
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa0055994>] afs_callback_update_kill+0x10/0x12 [kafs]
 [<ffffffffa007d1c5>] afs_init+0x190/0x1ce [kafs]
 [<ffffffffa007d035>] ? afs_init+0x0/0x1ce [kafs]
 [<ffffffff810001ef>] do_one_initcall+0x59/0x14e
 [<ffffffff8105f7ee>] sys_init_module+0x9c/0x1de
 [<ffffffff81001eab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/afs/main.c