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NULL pointer dereference in xt_register_target()

Message ID 1346861569.13121.149.camel@edumazet-glaptop
State Superseded
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Eric Dumazet Sept. 5, 2012, 4:12 p.m. UTC 
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 17:55 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 23:43 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> > Hi, folks,
> > 
> > The latest net-next tree can't boot due to a NULL ptr def
> > bug in the kernel, the full backtrack is:
> > 
> > http://img1.douban.com/view/photo/photo/public/p1697139550.jpg
> > 
> > the kernel .config file is:
> > 
> > http://pastebin.com/9YTnkqKN
> > 
> > I don't have time to look into the issue. If you need other info,
> > please let me know.
> 
> It seems xt_nat_init() is called before xt_init(), so xt array is not
> yet setup.
> 
> 

Seems the following patch should help, I have to try it ;)




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Patch

diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
index 8d987c3..afcea11 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
@@ -1390,6 +1390,6 @@  static void __exit xt_fini(void)
 	kfree(xt);
 }
 
-module_init(xt_init);
+core_initcall(xt_init);
 module_exit(xt_fini);