Commit 346e399b authored by Patrick McManus's avatar Patrick McManus Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] intelfb section fix

On Nov 16 2004 a change to intelfbdrv.c was commited (as part of 0.9.2 it
looks like) that added __initdata to all of the module param variables that
seems to create the opportunity for an oops.

I've recently been chasing an OOPS
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111552250920370&w=2

) I
created by reading every file on the /sys file system and I've traced it
back to this code in the intelfbdrv.  Though I had root privs in my initial
problem report, it turns out they are un-necessary to generate the oops -
all you've got to do is "cat /sys/module/intelfb/parameters/mode" enough
times and eventually it will oops.

This is because sysfs automatically exports all module_param declarations
to the sysfs file system..  which means those variables can be dynamically
evaluated at any later time, which of course means marking them __initdata
is a bad idea ;)..  when they happen to be char *'s it is an especially bad
idea ;).

Applying the patch below clears up the OOPS for me.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent c1e4c8d3
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@@ -228,17 +228,17 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION(
MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, intelfb_pci_table);

static int accel        __initdata = 1;
static int vram         __initdata = 4;
static int hwcursor     __initdata = 1;
static int mtrr         __initdata = 1;
static int fixed        __initdata = 0;
static int noinit       __initdata = 0;
static int noregister   __initdata = 0;
static int probeonly    __initdata = 0;
static int idonly       __initdata = 0;
static int bailearly    __initdata = 0;
static char *mode       __initdata = NULL;
static int accel        = 1;
static int vram         = 4;
static int hwcursor     = 1;
static int mtrr         = 1;
static int fixed        = 0;
static int noinit       = 0;
static int noregister   = 0;
static int probeonly    = 0;
static int idonly       = 0;
static int bailearly    = 0;
static char *mode       = NULL;

module_param(accel, bool, S_IRUGO);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(accel, "Enable console acceleration");