platform/x86: wmi: Call acpi_wmi_init() later
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 3 Jan 2018 11:49:29 +0000 (12:49 +0100)
committerDarren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Mon, 8 Jan 2018 18:47:48 +0000 (10:47 -0800)
commit98b8e4e5c17bf87c1b18ed929472051dab39878c
treea13dfaa7e299967f347c0e02be2497dbfcd50a61
parent532298b95075144bcccf56d792f3fb3fbef2d5d0
platform/x86: wmi: Call acpi_wmi_init() later

Calling acpi_wmi_init() at the subsys_initcall() level causes ordering
issues to appear on some systems and they are difficult to reproduce,
because there is no guaranteed ordering between subsys_initcall()
calls, so they may occur in different orders on different systems.

In particular, commit 86d9f48534e8 (mm/slab: fix kmemcg cache
creation delayed issue) exposed one of these issues where genl_init()
and acpi_wmi_init() are both called at the same initcall level, but
the former must run before the latter so as to avoid a NULL pointer
dereference.

For this reason, move the acpi_wmi_init() invocation to the
initcall_sync level which should still be early enough for things
to work correctly in the WMI land.

Link: https://marc.info/?t=151274596700002&r=1&w=2
Reported-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Tested-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c