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authorArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>2020-11-20 12:04:31 +0100
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2020-11-27 17:13:44 +1100
commit08a7e33c083b60c1ddd330df22fb56038e4a40ad (patch)
tree0058b7b426d2b37c8108b7abc9b857e6b2a4b1f3 /crypto
parente8a3dae6910157180c88c8b0e0dd06aee849b7fc (diff)
downloadlinux-08a7e33c083b60c1ddd330df22fb56038e4a40ad.tar.gz
crypto: tcrypt - don't initialize at subsys_initcall time
Commit c4741b2305979 ("crypto: run initcalls for generic implementations
earlier") converted tcrypt.ko's module_init() to subsys_initcall(), but
this was unintentional: tcrypt.ko currently cannot be built into the core
kernel, and so the subsys_initcall() gets converted into module_init()
under the hood. Given that tcrypt.ko does not implement a generic version
of a crypto algorithm that has to be available early during boot, there
is no point in running the tcrypt init code earlier than implied by
module_init().

However, for crypto development purposes, we will lift the restriction
that tcrypt.ko must be built as a module, and when builtin, it makes sense
for tcrypt.ko (which does its work inside the module init function) to run
as late as possible. So let's switch to late_initcall() instead.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
-rw-r--r--crypto/tcrypt.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/tcrypt.c b/crypto/tcrypt.c
index eea0f453cfb6..fc1f3e516694 100644
--- a/crypto/tcrypt.c
+++ b/crypto/tcrypt.c
@@ -3066,7 +3066,7 @@ err_free_tv:
  */
 static void __exit tcrypt_mod_fini(void) { }
 
-subsys_initcall(tcrypt_mod_init);
+late_initcall(tcrypt_mod_init);
 module_exit(tcrypt_mod_fini);
 
 module_param(alg, charp, 0);