From 5d38258ec026921a7b266f4047ebeaa75db358e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vegard Nossum Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:55:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ACPI battery: fix async boot oops > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) What happens is that the battery module's init sections are being freed before the async callback (which was marked __init) has run. This theory is supported by the fact that the bad RIP value is a vmalloc address. The immediate fix is to make this a non-init call. (A better long-term fix is of course to wait with init-section unloading until a module's async initcalls have been run, which would allow us to discard this function which is still only run once, after all. Perhaps a new async_initcall() function for the async/module API, if this is needed for other modules in the future?) Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Tested-by: Alessandro Suardi Tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/battery.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c index b0de6312919a..3c7d8942f23b 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ static struct acpi_driver acpi_battery_driver = { }, }; -static void __init acpi_battery_init_async(void *unused, async_cookie_t cookie) +static void acpi_battery_init_async(void *unused, async_cookie_t cookie) { if (acpi_disabled) return;