Re: [digsig:dmi 20/35] WARNING: security/integrity/built-in.o(.text+0x1d8): Section mismatch in reference from the function integrity_inode_free() to the variable .init.data:ima_use_tcb

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Hi,

Looking a bit into it, I think modpost is broken. I'm working on a fix.

Cheers!
-Chris

On 11/06/2012 03:57 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Perhaps we should CC more people..
>
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:47:18PM +0200, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:16:16PM +0200, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I do not see that integrity_inode_free() uses ima_use_tcb.
>>>>
>>>> I think it is false positive.
>>> Interestingly, when trying to reproduce the problem, I got this
>>> slightly different message:
> Now after make clean, I get both the warnings on ima_use_tcb and
> chosen_lsm.
>
>>> WARNING: security/built-in.o(.text+0x2b68c): Section mismatch in reference from the function integrity_inode_free() to the variable .init.d
>>> ata:chosen_lsm
>>> The function integrity_inode_free() references
>>> the variable __initdata chosen_lsm.
>>> This is often because integrity_inode_free lacks a __initdata
>>> annotation or the annotation of chosen_lsm is wrong.
>>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> chosen_lsm has nothing to do with integrity subsystem, though
>> integrity_inode_free() is called from security_inode_free(),
>> which is part of security subsystem files which uses chosen_lsm...
>>
>> That is very strange.
>>
>> - Dmitry
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Fengguang
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:11 PM, kbuild test robot
>>>> <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kasatkin/linux-digsig.git dmi
>>>>> head:   2309bb884f94d84ecb1a6a176d3e8199de7d6dad
>>>>> commit: 13ba29dcf6f0021a14a04f6f3a4560a399c02b34 [20/35] integrity: create and inititialize a keyring with builtin public key
>>>>> config: make ARCH=xtensa allyesconfig
>>>>>
>>>>> All warnings:
>>>>>
>>>>> WARNING: security/integrity/built-in.o(.text+0x1d8): Section mismatch in reference from the function integrity_inode_free() to the variable .init.data:ima_use_tcb
>>>>> The function integrity_inode_free() references
>>>>> the variable __initdata ima_use_tcb.
>>>>> This is often because integrity_inode_free lacks a __initdata
>>>>> annotation or the annotation of ima_use_tcb is wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> 0-DAY kernel build testing backend         Open Source Technology Center
>>>>> Fengguang Wu, Yuanhan Liu                              Intel Corporation
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