On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 03:45:56PM -0400, Kees Cook wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If a function is called by __init and __exit functions as well then > > the plugin moves it to the __exit section. This causes false positive > > section mismatch errors/warnings that I don't know how to handle yet. > > Should the mismatch checker be updated to recognize this case? Without > the plugin, I assume these kinds of functions would only ever be > marked for __exit? If so, should the plugin strip the __init marking > and only add __exit? That sounds like a problem for architectures that still discard the __exit section at link time to reduce the size of the linked kernel image - though, obviously, if using the plugin results in a smaller kernel image _with_ the exit sections, then there's a net benefit size-wise. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
