On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:06:36AM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote: > commit 4a9d4b024a31 ("switch fput to task_work_add") implements a > schedule_work() for completing fput(), but did not guarantee calling > __fput() after unpacking initramfs. Because of this, there is a > possibility that during boot a driver can see ETXTBSY when it tries > to load a binary from initramfs as fput() is still pending on that > binary. This patch makes sure that fput() is completed after unpacking > initramfs.
Umm... Do we want it done in kernel_init(), then? I have no objections against calling it in populate_rootfs(), and it looks like a sane place for that, but I wonder if the old callsite would remain needed after that...