On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 11:48:46AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > > That's only guaranteed to be true if the code is built is a loadable module. > If > it's built-in to the kernel, it could be called earlier, by a previous > initcall.
That would just be a bug. The same thing can happen with any code in the kernel but we don't add NULL-pointer checks all over the place just because some buggy code could call functions before init. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
